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A major cocoa producing region in Ghana, the world's second largest cocoa grower, is 81% infected with swollen shoot disease, according to the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO). Prices for the chocolate ingredient have roughly…
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The Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has held its 2024 Annual General Meeting in Accra, calling on the European Union to contribute financially to the change needed to ensure sustainability in the cocoa sector. The 2024 Annual…
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The world's second largest cocoa producer Ghana is looking to delay delivery of up to 350,000 tons of beans to next season due to poor crops, five sources told Reuters in a further worsening of the outlook for the global chocolate industry.…
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The Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has argued that cocoa can play a pivotal role in agroforestry, fostering enhanced carbon sequestration. According to him, cocoa production contributes significantly to mitigating the…
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Ghana's cocoa regulator, Cocobod, will borrow up to $1.5 billion by September to finance 2024/25 cocoa purchases and compensate for low output, two COCOBOD sources with knowledge of the arrangement told Reuters. The world's second-largest…
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Ivory Coast's Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) has suspended around 40 cooperatives they suspect were illegally hoarding cocoa beans in order to sell them at a higher price to exporters struggling to fulfil their contracts, two sources at the…
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A collaboration among Seattle Chocolate Company, Specialty Cocoa & Chocolate Associates, African Cocoa Marketplace, Three Mountains Cocoa, and Rikolto Ghana has brought a new level of support for women cocoa farmers across Ghana.…
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West African leaders have been urged by Ghanaian cocoa farmers to take advantage of the soaring international market prices of cocoa. The farmers say the trading and pricing mechanism has left many cocoa farmers in West Africa poor and…
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THE ODUMASE Krobo Circuit, presided over by His Honour, Judge Kwesi Apiatse Abaiddu, has handed a seven-year prison sentence to one Issifu Nyandi, who was found guilty for attempting to smuggle bags of cocoa beans from Ghana to neighbouring…
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President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the headquarters of the Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Co-operation Initiative (CIGCI) Secretariat Building in Accra, situated at Roman Ridge, a suburb of Accra. The president urged the two countries…
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