The Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) recently paid an amount of GH�103,110.00 to the National Health Insurance Authority as premium for 7,000 cocoa member-farmers across the seven cocoa growing regions in Ghana to benefit from the National Health Insurance Scheme.
This action forms part of the corporate social activities of the Cocoa Abrabopa Association. With this, the association aims to provide all their qualified cocoa farmers and their dependants below the age of 18 years an opportunity to have access to the NHIS and also complement government�s effort to provide quality and affordable health care for the citizenry.
The association hopes that this support will provide an incentive for the association�s member-farmers to repay credits on high quality inputs given to them during the season. All that is required for one to benefit is for cocoa farmers to enrol as CAA members for at least one year, pay up input credits on or before December 31st of each year, and continue to remain members.
Handing over the cheque of GH�103,110 to the NHIA authorities, Chairman of the Council of CAA Mr. Issa Mustapha emphasised the Association�s basic aims of improving on the livelihoods of cocoa farmers through regular training, provision of extension services and also to certify farmers in efficient, sustainable agricultural techniques, and ensuring the social security of farmers in their old age and in cases of incapacity through their Cocoa Abrabopa Pension Scheme (CAPS).
The Cocoa Abrabopa Association is a not-for-profit organisation established in January, 2008. It has a membership close to 19,000 serious farmers seeking a better life by using the Cocoa Abrabopa Package.
Its Head Office is located at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region and it currently works in seven cocoa growing regions in Ghana with 2,114 farmer based groups cultivating 51,300 acres of matured cocoa farms.
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