Tag Archives: COCOA

  The Ghana COCOBOD has expressed worry that women farmers in the country do not receive equal share of profits from cocoa income, despite their significant contributions towards the growth of the nation’s cocoa sector. Mrs Faustina Elikplim Aberor, the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regional Extension Officer, Cocoa Health …

Players in the cocoa production and processing value-chain in the country have called for immediate and rigorous measures to be placed to ensure improvement of the commodity into more semi-finished and finished products. This, they said would enable not only large scale companies but more importantly, small-scale and artisanal companies …

  The National Association of Ghana Cocoa Marketing Clerks has charged purchasing clerks to suspend the purchase of cocoa on credit from farmers until companies owing them are able to settle their indebtedness to them. That, it said, is to prevent the situation whereby clerks would purchase the produce on …

Business mogul, Sam Jonah has described news about China producing its own cocoa as terrible news to Ghana. The Asian country is reported to have exported to Belgium its first batch of cocoa beans weighing 500 kg worth about $3,600. In an article, Sam Jonah said “Ladies and gentlemen, I …

The European Union (EU) is threatening to ban cocoa from Ghana if the negative impact of illegal mining on the country’s environment persists. Making a presentation at the ongoing National Consultative Dialogue on Small Scale Mining in Accra today, April 15, 2021, the Deputy Chief Executive in-Charge of Agronomy and …

Criminal cases keep increasing day in and day out in the country this has left fear in the heart of people living in Ghana because the criminals keep tracing people and robbed them in their houses, offices, roads and markets. Due to this, there is no safe place to leave …

A year ago, Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo became the first African leader to be invited in about 60 years on a state visit to Switzerland. But his visit may not have gone as his host would wish as he announced that his country will soon end the process of selling …

Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have agreed to form a joint committee to find a lasting solution to security challenges faced by cocoa farmers along with the southern parts of the shared border of the two countries. Ghanaian cocoa farmers who farm across the Tano river are often accosted by irregular …

The Coalition of Cocoa farmers of Ghana has threatened to embark on a demonstration over the nonpayment of its members for produce supplied to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). The coalition has served notice to the government that it will stage a demonstration on Saturday, 6 March 2021 if payments …

The Minister-designate for Food and Agriculture, Dr Afriyie Akoto has disclosed that government will commence payments to farmers for cocoa on Monday, 22 February 2021. He also stated that the Central Bank is collaborating with COCOBOD to raise funds to pay Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs), when he appeared before the …