February 2020

The 8th edition of the Netherlands-based chocolate festival, Chocoa, returns between 19-23 February 2020 in Amsterdam. Covering major issues including industry sustainability, it is set to bring together stakeholders from the entire…
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The Managing Director of Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company, Vincent Okyere Akomeah has disclosed Ghana and Ivory Coast will from October 1 this year begin paying the Living Income Differential (LID) to cocoa farmers. The LID an amount of…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will from this week begin a 100 percent pruning of all cocoa farms across the country at no cost to farmers. This was revealed during a National Stakeholder Dialogue on cocoa farmgate pricing and income of cocoa…
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The Ghana COCOBOD has released figures which show that the country has exported cocoa beans as of January 2020 to the tune of 596,000 tonnes. This is an increase in the export of cocoa beans recorded in the previous season which stood at…
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Society generally tags incidences of children helping on cocoa farms as “cocoa child labour”. A practice that is cruel, but rampant in cocoa. Several interventions on a global scale aim to reduce and eventually eradicate the practice.…
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