June 2021

Ghana's record cocoa production in a decade has necessitated additional borrowing from the domestic market to finance purchases. As of June 3 2021, the world's second-largest cocoa producer had recorded 965,493 metric tonnes in cocoa…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss food processing technology giant Bühler Group to support the country's value addition drive. Bühler Group is a world leader in cocoa processing and chocolate…
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An 11-year-old Malaysian boy is touching the lives of the country's cocoa farmers in the Sabah State with his chocolate manufacturing social enterprise. The baby-faced chocolate maker, Armand Idrizam, is the founder of Koko Loko, a…
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A chocolate processing factory is to be established in Rwanda through collaboration between Ghana and the East African country to boost bilateral trade. Reciprocally, Rwanda will also establish a formulation plant in Ghana for the…
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Global food giant, Nestle SA, has admitted in a company document that over 60% of its food products and drinks are not healthy. Nestle is well known globally for a tall list of household brands such as Milo, KitKat, Magi, Nescafe,…
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Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator, Conseil Cafe Cacao (CCC), has called out leading chocolate makers for refusal to pay the Living Income Differential (LID), a $400-per-tonne premium. West African neighbours and the world's top two cocoa…
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The Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) has planted 1,500 trees to help the government achieve its objective of planting 5 million trees to green Ghana. Shade trees of all kinds nursed by Form Ghana were distributed to 351 member cocoa…
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The US Supreme Court has made a ruling absolving food giants Nestle and Cargill of any wrongdoing in a child slavery suit brought against them by six men from Mali. The apex court's decision effectively reverses a lower-court ruling that…
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The Programmes Director of Fairtrade Africa, Chris Oluoch, has disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted adversely on farmers in Africa, with many losing up to 80 percent of their revenue. Aside from the revenue losses occasioned…
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The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) has petitioned the sector minister to urgently reform the country's fertilizer subsidy programme over allegations of poor management and corruption. The…
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