An acute shortage of cocoa sacks has hit five cocoa producing areas in Asunafo North Municipality and Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo Region, for the past three weeks.
A study by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) revealed that a number of private licensed cocoa buying companies had run short of the sacks, since the re-opening of this year�s main crop season, making the weighing of cocoa beans extremely difficult for the purchasing clerks.
During a visit to a number of cocoa depots at Asumura, Sankore, Goaso and Kasapin a number of cocoa beans were piled up due to lack of sacks.
Some of the buying companies including OLAM, Akuafo Adamfo, Federated Commodity, Adwumapa Company and the Produce Buying Company confirmed the problem to the GNA.
Mr Kofi Amponsah, a purchasing clerk with OLAM at New-Sanireso, appealed to the government to intervene to reverse the situation.