Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture in charge of Perennial Crops and Cocoa Affairs, Kennedy Osei Nyarko, has strongly debunked the position of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the government is cheating farmers for maintaining the cocoa price, saying that “the decision to maintain a price of GH₵7,600 per metric tonnes producer price despite a drop in the world market price, is the most magnanimous thing to do under the circumstances”.