Tag Archives: COCOA

A 13-year-old girl was on Friday bitten to death by a snake on a cocoa settlement at Dadieso in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region. The large cobra, measuring about six feet, bit Juana Jupo Tandor in her sleep at around 0430 hours and she died later at the …

Cocoa farmers around Elubo in the Jomoro District of the Western Region now use a makeshift wooden bridge and walk for about 7 kilometers just to avoid using the Tano River, where Ivorian rebels attack them for their produce. TV3 in February 2021 carried a story in which they complained about …

Niche Confectionery Ghana Limited has sealed a deal with the Ministry of Education to supply enriched ready-to-drink cocoa beverages to basic school children across the country. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed last week, allowing Niche Confectionery Ghana to supply its ready-to-drink beverages to 1.8 million primary school children …

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is set to roll out an irrigation programme for farmers in cocoa-growing areas to ensure an all-year round water supply for their farmlands in a bid to increase yield. The move has become necessary following drought in those areas, resulting in the withering of most …

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will soon begin the process of handing over the management of rehabilitated cocoa farms to their farm owners. This comes after a successful two-year-long rehabilitation of hundreds of acres of Cocoa Swollen Shoot Viral Disease (CSSVD) infected farms, under the COCOBOD, and Government funded Cocoa Rehabilitation …

The Bodi District office of the Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) has enrolled 1750 farmworkers onto the National Health Insurance Scheme to enable them to access quality and affordable healthcare. The Bodi District Coordinator of CHED, Mr Maxwell Addai Appiah, said the opportunity is given to the farmworkers also …

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has denied claims that it is unable to account for the $1.3 billion cocoa syndicated loan for the 2020/2021 crop season. The Member of Parliament for Juaboso, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, on Thursday asserted that COCOBOD has failed to give a tangible explanation about the whereabouts …

The Chief Executive Officer of the United Arab Emirates Trade Centre, Mr. Walid Hareb, has urged Ghana to establish a cocoa trading platform in Dubai. According to him, the platform, which could be a pilot project, would make Dubai the central point of Ghana’s cocoa, where the raw beans and …

The decomposing body of a farmer has been discovered in bizarre circumstances in a cocoa farm at Assin Akortey-no.2 in the Assin South District of the Central. The deceased has been identified as Kofi Koranteng popularly known as Agenda who hails from Larteh in the Eastern but until his death …

Ghana since 2019 has lost over 39,400 hectares of forest due to activities of cocoa production, this has been disclosed by global advocacy organisation, Mighty Earth in its latest report. The report dubbed ‘Sweet Nothings’ raises concerns on how cocoa is still driving the destruction of protected areas in cocoa-growing …