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The Ghana Cocoa, coffee and Shea-nut farmers association was officially founded in 1980 during the reign of Dr Hilla Limann by late Owusu Gyami Ofinso, Soma Wura and Nana Nyarko, to campaign for better price of the crops, but the union can be traced back in 1948, when the colonial governor Sir Gerald Hallen Creasy ordered the cutting down of the diseased swollen shoots of Cocoa to save the healthy ones. The farmers then formed an association and joined hands with the African educated elites to demonstrate againt the decision of the governor famed in Ghanaian history as the 1948 riots, they argued if your son is sick, do you kill him, or heal him? To them it was a strategy by the colonial government to deprive them of their survival though the idea of insecticide or pesticide was a later development

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