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Ghana Could End 2023/24 Cocoa Season at 40% Below Target
Ghana's cocoa output for the 2023/24 season is expected to be almost 40% below a target of 820,000 metric tons, two sources from the country's sector regulator, COCOBOD told Reuters.
Strong seasonal winds and a lack of rain are among the…
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Ghana to Expand Cocoa Rehabilitation with $200M World Bank Loan
Ghana's Cocobod will use part of a $200 million World Bank loan to rehabilitate plantations destroyed by the cocoa swollen shoot virus, which causes drops in yields and kills trees, the regulator's deputy Chief Executive in charge of…
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Ivory Coast Intercepts 1500 Bags of Cocoa at Guinea Border
The Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) of Ivory Coast has helped the national police to seize three trucks loaded with 1,500 bags of cocoa beans on the border with Guinea, the regulator's managing director said on Friday.
Low farmgate prices…
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Stop Exploiting Cocoa Farmers with Demand and Supply Chorus
A Ghanaian cocoa farmer, Issifu Issaka, has challenged chocolate companies to stop hiding under the demand and supply chorus and pay fair prices that assure cocoa farmers a living income.
Issaka decried the continuous lip service and…
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Cocoa Price to Hit New Records as Supply Deficit Protracts
Cocoa futures extended their surge to a record in New York as a shortfall gripped the market, threatening to make chocolate and other confectionery costlier.
Prices have doubled during the past year as growers in West Africa — who produce…
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Ghana Loses over 500,000 Hectares of Cocoa Farms to Swollen Shoot Disease
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has revealed that over 500,000 hectares of cocoa farms in Ghana have been lost to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD), posing a major threat to the country’s…
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Embrace Agricultural Cooperatives for Food Security and Economic Growth
The Board Chairman of the Ghana Cooperative Council, Dr Bernad Bingab, has encouraged African leaders to adopt the agricultural cooperatives model for improvements in both food security and economic development across the continent.…
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Solidaridad, Cooperatives Dept. to Empower Ghana cocoa farmers
Solidaridad, an international civil society organisation, has partnered with the Department of Co-operatives (DoC) in Ghana to facilitate the establishment of a robust regional and national cooperative association to increase the…
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Uproar As COCOBOD Approves 3500MT Cocoa Importation
A Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) letter approving the importation of cocoa beans has sparked an uproar in the world's second largest cocoa-producing country.
In the letter dated January 25, 2024, the management of COCOBOD authorises…
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Ghana Startups to Get Direct Cocoa Beans Supply This Year
Ghanaian farmers and local cocoa processing startups would, starting this year, be able to purchase cocoa beans directly from the national cocoa trading agency, Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), for chocolate and confectionery manufacturing.…
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