Cocoa farmers are pained and for justifiable reasons; they are not being paid for their produce. What they are currently enduring is the last thing they expected having been hopeful about improved living conditions under a new political administration as they were promised. Cocoa farmers across the country hosted many politicians ahead of the 2024 elections when they came seeking their votes with sugar-coated promises they could not snub. Politicians on the then opposition side, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), touched the right chord when they especially told their hosts that should they vote for them the producer price of the golden pod would appreciate. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government was shortchanging them, they told their gullible hosts. Enter the NDC government and the promised word has not been implemented. Today, those of them who sold their produce to the Licensed Buying Companies (LBC) are awaiting payments for the transaction, the date this would come to ...