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China Cocoa Export: Ghana Must Be More Aggressive At Value Addition
News about China exporting cocoa to Belgium has unsettled many in Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa beans exporter.
Concerns are that the Chinese, with capital and technology, will outcompete Africa's cocoa producers whose…
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Lack of Data On Cocoa Production Hurting Uganda Farmers
Lack of data is the key setback in Cocoa production and marketing in Uganda.
Emmanuel Lubega, the Uganda-South Sudan national coordinator at the East African Business Council-EABC, argues that even when hundreds of farmers are involved…
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Ghana Marshals Local Cocoa Processors As It Eyes $3-Trillion AfCFTA Market
Ghana has been growing cocoa for about one and half centuries. Once the world's number one producer of cocoa beans, it lost that spot to neighbouring Ivory Coast.
The nature of the country's cocoa economy has barely changed since the…
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Barry Callebaut Group Undertakes Management Shake-up, CEO Steps Down
A massive shakeup in management at Barry Callebaut Group has seen the Board of Directors appoint Peter F. Boone as the new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 1, 2021.
Boone is the current President Region Americas and a member…
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Ghana Loses 5000 Hectares Of Cocoa Farms In Key Region To Illegal Mining Activities
More than 5,000 hectares of cocoa farmlands in the Western North Region have been destroyed by illegal mining activities (galamsey).
This was disclosed by the Deputy Chief Executive in-Charge of Agronomy and Quality Control at the Ghana…
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Ghana Made KOA Cocoa Pulp Juice Features In Italy’s Venchi Gelato
Venchi, the Italian chocolate and gelato manufacturer, has successfully introduced an exciting new addition to its range of sorbet made from cocoa fruit.
The vegan Venchi gelato is based on Koa Pure, a 100% natural cocoa fruit juice…
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Ghana’s Farmers Eye Sweet Success From Chocolate
There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it.
Last year the retail industry was worth $107bn (£78bn), according to one projection, but Ghana - the world's second-largest cocoa…
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Alex Assanvo Heads Ivory Coast And Ghana Cocoa Initiative
Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world's top two cocoa beans producers, have appointed Alex Arnaud Assanvo to head an organisation born out of their joint cooperation on cocoa.
Until his appointment as the first-ever Executive Secretary of the…
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Ritter Sport Is Told Its New No-sugar Bar Is Not Chocolate
The German chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport is embroiled in a row with food law regulators after being told it cannot call its latest creation a chocolate bar because it contains no sugar, The Guardian has reported.
RitterSport, which…
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COCOBOD Appoints Three New Directors to CRIG
Management of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has made 3 new directorial appointments at Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG).
This move became necessary as a result of the Retirement of Dr. Isaac Yaw Opoku (Executive Director) from the…
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