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Cargill Records Challenging Annual Financial Results
The Cargill group has reported its fourth quarter earnings were $476 million, down by 41% against a record figure last year of $809 million, which it attributed to challenging global market conditions.
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COCOBOD Rallies Management Staff to Turn Around Fortunes
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has called on managers and directors of the Board to work innovatively to change the fortunes of the cocoa industry.
Mr Boahen Aidoo made the call when he briefed…
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Nestlé Announces It’s First Sugar-Free Chocolate
Nestlé has announced it has created a unique chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit, using the beans and pulp as the only ingredients and therefore not adding any refined sugar.
Nestlé plans to introduce the first product in Japan in…
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$100 Million Ghana-China Cocoa Processing Factory Soon
Ghana has hinted of an impending deal with China to establish a 50,000-tonne capacity cocoa processing plant at the cocoa producing enclave of Western North Region.
The partnership project said to cost 100 million dollars will produce…
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Ghana And Cote d’Ivoire Announce Living Income Differential For Cocoa Farmers
Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire have announced a new cocoa trading pricing mechanism offering a $400 per tonne living income differential (LID) to the farmer.
The Living Income Differential is introduced as a "guarantee" to the $2,600 per tonne…
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Mars Inc Endorses Ghana And Ivory Coast $2,600 Cocoa Floor Price
U.S. food maker Mars Inc. supports a decision by Ivory Coast and Ghana to set a floor price for their cocoa exports, a senior executive told Reuters on Wednesday, becoming one of the first major chocolate companies to back the initiative.…
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COCOBOD Urged To Cut Ties With World Cocoa Farmers Organization
The Ghana Cocoa, Coffee and Sheanut Farmers Association (COCOSHE) have called on the Ghana Cocoa Board to disassociate itself from the World Cocoa Farmers Organization (WCFO).
This follows a decision by the government and Côte d’Ivoire to…
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Ghana Cocoa Boss Hands Over First Solar Irrigation System To Farmer
The Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has officially handed over an ultra-modern solar-powered irrigation system to a cocoa farmer.
The system has been installed on a 30-acre cocoa farm owned by…
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Think of Your Farm As a Business – Ghana Cocoa Boss Tells Cocoa Farmers
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has charged cocoa farmers to be business minded in operating their farms and to partake fully in the various programmes introduced by COCOBOD to ensure…
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Solidaridad Trains Ivory Coast Youth to Protect Fast Depleting Forests
Solidaridad West Africa (SWA) has trained and engaged 20 youth in Ivory Coast for the protection of forest in the West African country.
Programmes and projects for the protection of forests is gaining currency in the world's largest…
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