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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers have mounted demand for a significant raise in cocoa farmgate prices ahead of the 2023/24 crop season which opens October 1. Ivorian Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (PICD), the official mouthpiece of cocoa…
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Rainforest Alliance has, as part of its “Yen Ne Mmofra No Nti” project, introduced the Human Rights Due Diligence Toolkit to help prevent, identify and address forced labour and child labour in the cocoa and gold sectors. The…
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Ivory Coast cocoa production in the upcoming 2023/24 crop season is projected to drop by as much as 20% compared to recent years due to poor weather, putting further upward pressure on prices, Reuters reported on Monday. Ivory Coast is…
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Ghana has announced it will pay a farmgate price of GHS20,943.84 (USD1,821) per tonne and GHS1308.99 per 64kg bag of cocoa beans for the 2023/24 crop season, which officially opened Friday, 8 September 2023. This historic 63.6% price…
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Rainforest Alliance (RA) has praised some of its partner licensed cocoa buying companies (LBCs) in Ghana for paying the mandatory $70 per ton Sustainability Differential premium to cocoa farmers. RA, an international sustainability…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana are asking the government for a remarkable increase in the farmgate price of their produce to tackle poverty, cross-border smuggling and illegal mining on cocoa farms. Addressing the media in the Ghanaian capital,…
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Ghana is set to announce a significant increase in the cocoa producer price for the upcoming 2023/24 crop season beginning September 8. The cocoa producer price or farmgate price is the amount paid by the government to farmers for a 64kg…
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Gablin Foods Limited, producer of origin cocoa products from Ghana, has landed supply deals with key distributors in the Chinese fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. When the contracts are finally firmed up by the parties, Gablin…
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Ghana is set to open the 2023/24 crop season for the purchases of cocoa beans one month earlier than usual on Friday, 8 September 2023. The world's second-largest cocoa producer has traditionally announced the opening of a new crop…
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Koa, a Ghanaian-Swiss startup, has successfully commissioned into operation Africa's largest cocoa fruit processing factory in Akim Achiase, Ghana. The facility raised at the cost of $10 million is the company's second in the…
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