We Own 50 Acres Of Cocoa Farm In Ghana But Still Poor!
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One of the reasons why I want to get into the chocolate industry was to help the African Farmers throughout the world.
Ghana needs manufacturing and processing coco plants to give the coco farmers better salaries
@@lyntoncampbell1425 thanks for letting me know I will add that to my my notes.
I love chocolate so much and we are giving this cocoa away
One can only do bette if one has sen better.Since you have seen better my brother , do it, remember we have to work together Abantu.
This so reminds me of my dad's farm in Portland, and enjoyed lots of sweet cocoa pods - from tree to mouth. 🤩 One love from Jamaica 🇯🇲🇯🇲❤️🇯🇲🇯🇲.
Cocoa pod husk can be used for soap, and for organic manure
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My father used to say..."In the abundance of water, the FOOL is always thirsty "
Now I say... In the abundance of Natural resources, GHANA is still struggling!!!
In Ghana we are blessed with all natural resources u can think of. Name them, from Gold to cocoa to iron to timber to bauxite to Diamonds to manganese to agricultural produce and oil. Ghana has it all yet look at us.
God has done His part for us. Its about time we do our part as well. We can't let God's blessings go to waste. We can't continue to be slaves to the West by letting them determine prices for us cos we don't do for them. We can't keep exporting raw materials without adding value to them and import back what we exported after they have added value.
Its time for us to wake up! It's about time we start thinking ahead and stop thinking about today. We need visionaries not today thinkers! All hope is not lost. Ghana can still make it out. If we are determined, then we Can!
To help the coco farmers. Africans utubers need to send this Vedio to their respective Governments, Politicians and the AU all across the motherland. Send this Vedio and others Vedios to those in Charge of Exporting the Africans countries lives. Send them a massage
I can relate to this. You spend so much resources on cocoa farm and receive next to nothing in returns. Some of us still keep the farms just to support the local folks... There's the temptation of selling the farms to illegal miners for a fortune but you think about the impact of their activities on the environment and you decide against that. Our local farmers deserve better.
Thanks Legend Wode Maya for sharing the plight of cocoa farmers with the world.
I suggest you people ask your local politicians and vote for a government that allows farmers to sell directly to the market at right prices not to government your problem is your government at this price controls create poverty. There is a reason why a farmer in South Africa is millionaire why because he is allowed to sell at the highest prices while African governments put controls that is why market economies always prosper over too regulated markets
Why don't you lease it to the miners ... and let the local farmers setup businesses to feed, shelter and transport and protect the miners?
@@vanhuvanhuvese2738 Farmers in South Africa are beneficiaries of Apartheid that made sure that Europeans benefited to the max . This has remained so to this day . The question is why can't others copy this system of support to local industries ??? The way this world operates favours Caucasians because they designed it ,, look at this buyer's of commodities determine the prices not the producer : gold, diamonds, copper
Oil, name it all are determined by buyers
@@philipbanda6637 👍🏾
How many of the farmers out there in South Africa are blacks?
The cocoa shells can be used back in the soil as manure. They can dry it and grind it into powder and use it for potting soil for plants. The shell has lots of nutrients that is good for the soil.
Not only can burn to potassium Ash for soap
Hi Wodemaya,
Wonderful video. Keep it up.
I am Electrical Power Systems Engineer based in Europe but originally from Ghana.
I can assure you that these cocoa can be used for many things. One of them is to generate electrical power.
You are welcome to contact me for more details.
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@@WODEMAYA they used the ashis of the pod for making soap
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I very much appreciate the REAL education; thanks a million!
Thanks for bring it to light, brighter !
Hmmm brother, say it again!!!!! We really need to do something about Agriculture @farminginafrica
I know you can do it. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me " you're my inspiration.
@Wode Maya You can use all that raw Materials to make a lot of things. I visited the Cocoa board in Tafo, a couple of years back and actually made a video. They make use of all the raw materials from Cocoa making Show Polish, Whiskey, Soap, Cocoa butter, DIsh Washing soap etc with them. I can send you the video. So maybe you can make a trip to the Cocoa Institute in Tafo and see what they do there. They also make Chocolate that is being exported because I have seen it at stores here in the US.
Where is your video of this?
@@sunnyjohnson8533 I really did not edit the video but here is one I did a couple of years back
th-cam.com/video/h1Ay8abhuic/w-d-xo.html
I also did one 2 Decembers ago when i went back for the Queen Mother's burial. I will try and upload that as well.
It's unfair for the government to be making more money from the Cocoa than the farmers themselves. Let the farmers form an association that will buy and sell the cocoa without the government.
two ideas: 1) some people take dried hulls like those and sell it as compost and/or an alternative to pebbles/stones that people use in landscaping. Perhaps the cocoa husk could be marketed that way. 2) A rancher in USA made a fortune when he had the idea to take cow dung, shape it as pots, dry it and sell it as a biodegradable/self-fertilizing pot for plants. Its an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic landscape pots that you find at nurseries and garden centers.
Amazing innovation
Ghana is literally a gold mine. People just need a drive and policies to help to do things like this.
This. Is. Crazy. Though. Be cause. They. Use. The. Cocoa. To. Make. Soooooo. Many. Things
@@maureenburrell5452 exactly
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In Nigeria cocoa is being used for Milo and Bovita power. It is shocking that farmers are still facing hardship
The transformation of our agricultural production is the key to breaking out of the cycle dictated by colonization. In some regions, it is even recommended to return to productions devoted primarily to local food consumption. It is a collective duty (excluding sold politicians) to redefine agricultural value chains in Africa.
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According to the internet those brown cacao shells can be used as fertilizer. It can be used to make husk tea. Weed killer. High in fiber so you can make packaging and other materials. Fabric dye. Animal fadder.
Highly informative. The government should see this
JADAM and KNF Natural farming techniques would put the power back into the farmer's hand and you will have more bountiful production of cocoa. It would cut all costs for the farmers almost completely.
Thanks for sharing 👍 it's sad for these farmers. Your Government should do something. Here in Kenya chocolate is very expensive! I was wondering whether that raw materials can be used for cooking energy.
you are asking the criminal top stop stealing !!!!!! they force farmers to sell to government then they pay them peanuts then the government sell it at a higher price to the market and pocket the profits. This is why farmers in most African countries are poor yet farmers in SA are not poor why ? because its free market economy and farmers sell their product directly to market which gives them more money this poverty in of these farmers is a result of theft however God knows those who steal from them their day will come
Thanks for putting DR Congo and Whole Africa on the map.
Please release those DRC vlogs no matter the corruption and dumbnes of officials.
People need to see how f.up DRC is, it will help improve the nation.
Wode Maya another great documentary. Cocoa is not just used for to make chocolate. There are more products made from cocoa. Also cocoapods can be used as natural fertilizer.
I really hope that we can bring the minds and souls of the black entrepreneurs who can help the farmers by buying directly from them. if black entrepreneurs bought from these Farmers they would no longer be poor they would be rich and we could help end the crisis.
I love this video
U re speaking in behalf of our fathers
Try making shacol for fire or faterizer
I can relate when I go to my dads coco farm and coconut grove in St Lucia.. which looks just like Ghana. including the land crabs 😁
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Hi Wode Maya I'm a very big fan of your channel and the great job u are doing,
My input on coco is that the remaining shells can be used for manure
WODE MAYA you can be like Mr. beast on TH-cam but for Africa
Wode Maya you doing great work keep speaking for Ghana coaco farmers. They are still poor but those at the coaco board are rather rich.
I have created a podcast on THE DR. BETH'S podcast on how to use Cocoa pod husks to improve crop yields and Soil quality. I will publish it on 16th November. So you can watch out for it if you are a farmer or you would like to grow your own organic food.
Keep up the good work Ackon a.k.a Woda Maya for Great Africa. Don't say "Africa", it is Great Africa..
Long live great prosperous Great Africa.
I believe this is a small problem that the rich African middle class can solve. It is up to us to put up cocoa processing factories and distribute them across Africa. No more taking European chocolate brands in Africa like the way we do in Kenya today.
@benson Muriithi The local processing of agricultural products and the development of the intra-African market is the future.
My heart goes out to those poor coco farmers. We grow coco in my community in Jamaica. We sell some, and process some to make hot drink, which is delicious. But sad to say we let a lot of our coco go to waste; while we buy the processed one that comes from overseas. I heard that coco is called a miracle food because of its numerous health benefits. I heard that the white meat on the seed is good for diabetes, and the seeds has great medicinal values. We need to do more medicinal research on this coco. I am sure the husk has some industrial value, possible oil for energy. Get our scientific minds to figure out something. God is the greatest teacher! He gives mankind wisdom and knowledge to invent and create... I don't care what the world want to say about Jesus. I know Him for myself. He taught me many things. I love Jesus! I love your farm; it's beautiful. You should seriously think of building a retreat on your farm. Many people would visit, and you could create jobs and use the money to help the farmers.
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Just like coconut husk is used to make different items; cocoa husk can be used to make the same.
As a British/Jamaican Ghana is very strong on my radar as a country where I want to reside and help the locals in whatever way possible. I am watching the guy climb the coconut tree and that is exactly how they climb it back in the days in Jamaica. As a people we are wealthy but the issue is that we have not harvested our wealth. Western Gangsters have exploited us for too long.
God bless you ❤
Ahhh Ghana, it breaks my heart. It's considered as the very backbone of our country yet only the people at the top benefit from the sweats and labour of the local famers
thieves they are and they ware suits
My Dear Wode Maya I'm so Glad you've taken the Course of the cocoa Farmers in Ghana! It's about time and all. The dried pods can be made into charcoal for local use so the trees will no longer be cut down for charcoal. Our people are aware of the Global Warming. Therefore keeping our trees yor Future generations and npt allow foreigners to come and destroy our lands.
Wode Maya this is for you to help the poor farmers whose efforts are not respected nor acknowledged for all their hard work!! Thank You my dear son and God Bless You and the Family!
Good grassroots project by Bad boy, Wode Maya. Can planting and harvesting cocoa seeds be mechanized which will definitely increase production and uses less manpower? For sure the cocoa farmers can get more for their produce if Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire team up and negotiate for a better price. Please, Wode Maya, stop addressing your neighbor by its colonial name, Ivory Coast. How would you feel if somebody says that Wode Maya is from Gold Coast?
Plant Pistachio, Green Gold and export it.
Thank you for a tour on your farm.God Bless.
Cocoa pod husk are potential feed supplements for goats and ducks besides natural organic fertilizer
Wode Maya...you have highlighted the problem and not identified a solution. Here's my take: use your design engineering skills to create the necessary equipment to speed up cocoa harvesting. For example, instead of using a machete to remove the cocoa fruit from the trees and then break it, design a battery-operated rotating stick with a vacuum cup that will hold the cocoa and then pull it from the tree. Next, design a cutting board (plastic or metallic) with a knife cutter to cut the pods in half and vacuum the seeds out of the pods. Collect the seeds for fermentation.
Your challenge is to move away from traditional methods and use technology to improve the way you collect and process cocoa. If it takes 10 seconds less to do any task, over time it will pay off. Use your manpower for other intelligent tasks and use machines for manual labor.
Technology is the answer. Africa has many engineers all over the continent, you should talk to them, the inventors, and investors.
If the government increases the price it pays the farmers for cocoa, you will still have the problem for years to come.
I was thinking the same thing as an engineer now that he has highlighted the problem the opportunity now is to gather like minds and brains to find the solution and then we can start to see and realize some value added benefits from cocoa
@@georgiagunning5533 Thanks man. The idea of talking about the government not paying is old school. The way they're harvesting is killing them. Until these guys embrace technology, they will forever look at the problems with no solution-seeking thought. We need to stop the victim-seeking-blaming-everyone else and use our brain.
The cocoa pods are use for making soap, Alata Samina .
Maya, the Cocoa pods can be made into fibers for paper production or very nice covering for car seats. Polyethylene is laced on it to increase tensile strength and for water resistant. Contact me for more details
Great maya
The empty pods can be sold as mulch. Where it is ground up and put around bushes and trees around homes.
You can make briquettes out of the waste, after you crack the cocoa can be washed with water to produce juice (with what you are sucking) and extract the beans at the same time and a lot of stuff ...
In nigeria we make black soap from the waste pond from cocoa.
Much Respect to you Wode!!
Please plant your commun food into these 50 acres then you will be food sufficient
Wode Maya, many farmers are doing eco tours on their farms to supplement their income. Do it brother; it would bring necessary attention to the cause; and great PR for your brand. It is not just good to report on the necessary changes; but also be the change😉
Until the habit of paying more for food in order to develop local food security is promoted by so called third world governments farmers there are locked into poverty.
Great content! I'm thinking the Cocoa shells can be used for Activated carbon.
Nice to have land
This your brother with white Shirt 👕, looks like someone I know in Austria 🇦🇹, we attend the same Church ⛪️ COP.
Same sad story across the continent, farmers are exploited for the pleasure of foreigners. Be it cocoa, coconut, tobacco, maize, sugar, and even beyond farming, blood diamonds, emeralds, gold, copper, cobalt etc. It hurts to see massive land degradation and deforestation spreading like a pandemic in search of these precious stones or by wood harvesting Chinise.
Thank you for the video, it’s a refreshing tour, may your dad continue to Rest In Peace, take comfort in the good memories of him, you are him. Peace & Blessings
Hey @wode .. the dry port is use for Ghanaians black soap.
Cocoa pod is good for the skin, it prevents anti ageing. You can therefore use like African black soap. It can also act as fertiliser
I think those who produce chocolate should gift their providers every once in a while. It will change soon.
It's life Wode, I miss my mom too. Grace be to you.
We can extract soap from cocoa pot or shell which here in Ghana we called it alata samina
The fresh husks can be used directly for pig feed
what can we do as the foreigners who are buying the end product - CHOCOLATE??? I'm serious. Please someone tell me what we can do to help our African brothers and sisters who are farming this crop?
Honestly are American dollars can really benefit if we invest in our people before the dollar loses its value here.
Let’s support our brother to start pitching processing plants closer to farmers and buy at better rates.Voila Wademaya chocolate 🍫
I am with you
Build processing industries…add the value to the cocoa
Please email wade maya 🙏 we will take you through the right path safely, I mean safely 🙏
I think you can use them for mulch. In Jamaica we would just scatter it in the land and you can set containers and catch the juice to make vinegar.
Maya, you have a voice, talk to the university students about the hasks, they can grind it and turn it to charcoal or an additive in building materials
God bless you Maya.
The husks can used to make briskets for use as fuel.
Wode maya u re doing a great job but please try to contact the most richest people in Ghana to help build the company's that might help our farmers.
I hope and pray that will help us all as an Africans thx and stay bless
That Empty pod could be use as charcoal in a factory that process cocoa
Iam coming next year ghana baby i love agriculture so that is fun, nature the garden od eden with every thing on it blessing.
During the fermentation process the liquid produced is not collected. That liquid can be collected to create wine. That may be another revenue option for farmers
Great farm Woody, it would be nice if you could make biogas with the discarded husk.
The waste cocoa pod can be use to manufacture soap which we call "AMONKYE"
I loveee trees for as long as I can remember. All those beautiful green green trees, grass and other plants along the wall path.
I watched your video and was moved to share with you to sell a portion on your compose for fertilizer considering there's gonna be a shortage in fertilizer. See if you can find a country that will buy your cocoa in South America. The culture in other countries use cocoa in spicey cuisines as well. Coffee shops use cocoa in coffee products too. I hope that you're successful in your endeavors. You're blessed to have such a beautiful blessing and your grandfather was a blessing as well. Have a blessed day and thank you for taking time to read my comment.
Keep up the good work maya 🎉Africa to the world 🌎
Wode, combine the cocoa pods with waste paper to make charcola briquettes. Better use fo environmental resources, and can create better opportunities for people to cook. It would save the money from buying charcoal and reduce the reliance on the natural forest. Also, reduce helath damagre from smoke inhalation. It could be huge.
By now we should have good road networks or railroads that leads to most cocoa farms in Ghana 🇬🇭, good educational facilities, good health centers and hospitals to the cocoa farming communities. But they lack all this great amenities. This is an issue in raw material producing communities and we need to change that narrative. Great video from Wode Maya as always
The shell got nutrients can be use as compose,from south africa
It can be made into animal feed, and composted to produce better soil for export and other developing farms.
wode ut can be used as natural energy
Could the left over husks be turned into coal like how they do coconut husks?? Or even broken down to make dyes for clothes.
Good Day Wode Maya. Since the first time that I found out where the Coco plants were grown and who were growing the Coco farms. I have a different respect for the business of Chocolate. And how expensive a Chocolate bar cost here in America. It is extremely popular. But no Coco plants can be found in any of these Countries that are getting rich from Chocolate. I pray that one day Africa can build its own Chocolate Factory to receive the most money for there hard work and there Coco farms. But the company has to be African owned. Not a outsider. So we stand with you in your quest to show the World how Africa is once again being used for its riches. So keep doing the videos on the Coco. Eventually it will be noticed by the right people and not someone that does not care about the people of Africa . So be blessed my brother and God bless.
This is interesting and my first time to see cocoa
Hi Wode Maya I'm from st Vincent and the Grenadines. The Coco shell is good for your hair just crush it put it in your hair it will become soft and curly
Africa in general can be a world food basket. We have the land and we have the manpower. We need processing plants. Could this birth The Wode Maya Chocolate Factory? Not a bad idea . I agree with Mutauz ‘s comment above. Do the $1 contribution. Do the same in other countries. Who knows we can all become investors and put Africa in the position it is blessed to be.
The cocoa pod can be dried,burnt into ashes and use for alata soap
Amononkye....is a special soup derived from the Cocoa pods . Is just like the Alata Soap popular known as the black soap but amononkye is more powerful than the black soap, is very effective in eradication of pimples, skin rushes . I remember in those days the ladies were mixing it with Asep Soap for bleaching
The cocoa pod can be used for making soap
This is sad...l cry when l saw chocolate in Europ...
Hey Wode Maya, I believe you are in a good position to setup your chocolate factory and create wealth for your people
Maya u can use it for organic fertiliser
My favourite drink was coco juice in Lofa county Liberia back in the early 90s
People here in Israel where the kosher rules require pure foods will pay retail $20 for a bag of cocoa beans, and will happily buy raw cocoa ground and cocoa pods whole if they can be shipped fast enough. Others will too. The farmers should sell direct to buyers. If they can do that then the middle men and distributors would not get rich on their backs. Also, the fruit hulls may be useful as fuel. If they have some bit of oil in them, that might be useful as well.
Bro, we as African let us just produce what consume. That the only way to solve this issue. Next season you can try to plant Ginger or cassava or even tomato and you will notice the difference.
How can you explain that since the war between Russia and Ukraine everything we import from Europe, America or Asia the price went up but when it comes to our products the price is going down.
cocoanut and chocolate together is so goooooood
Brother wode Maya the outside of the shell of the cocoa my brother can be used in fertilizers and for feeding livestock one love my brother love what you're doing for our people home and abroad rastafari love bless 🦁🦁🦁🔥🔥🔥🔥💯❤️🇹🇹
Good job continue to be the voice of Africa and please be careful.
Maya keep the good work ❤
Thanks for the video,
I think we cannot ask others to come and open factories to add value to cocoa, instead we encourage ourselves to do that. We can do it, we thank goodness that we have countries like china and India who can sell these machines at affordable prices . If it’s about finances and know how we do have talent but the gap between those who know and those who have the money is wide. We need to close it up. China is making chocolate now and even selling to my own country Cameroon who is I think No.4 or 5 producer of cocoa is that not crazy? Let’s think Africa.
In my country Sierra Leone, they use the shell to make black soap.
Great idea you people are wise ow da body
My mother used to make it, i don't have any idea about it😁
I bet goats would love to eat cocoa shells too!
I saw someone in Africa use coconut shells and turn them into charcoal to cook with. Maybe you can do the same.