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Last Friday, the government of Ghana set the minimum price it would pay farmers for the 2011-2012 harvest at US$2000/MT. The price of the beans has been falling on global markets and the government has “sacrificed part of its export tax share” to help farmers, Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor said at a news conference [Friday, Oct 14] in Accra, the capital. [FYI, the market price for cocoa on Fr…