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Ivory Coast Increases 2022/23 Cocoa Producer Price By 9%
Ivory Coast has increased its cocoa producer price from 825CFA to 900CFA ($1.33) per kilogram for the 2022/23 cocoa season.
The new price announced in Abidjan by Vice President Tiemoko Meyliet represents 9% raise over that of the…
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Cocoa CSOs Propose GHS838 As New Producer Price
The Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has called on the government to increase the producer price of cocoa to a minimum of GHS838 per bag.
The position of GCCP contained in a statement copied to Cocoa Post comes on the…
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Cocoa Freight Rates Increased For 2022/23 Season
The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Ghana Shippers Authority (GSA) and 18 shipping lines have agreed to increase basic cocoa freight rates for the 2022/2023 cocoa season to all destinations but the United Kingdom (UK).
As a result, basic…
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Cocoa Post Opens Nominations For 2022 Ghana Cocoa Awards
Organisers of Ghana Cocoa Awards, Cocoa Post, have opened nominations for the fourth edition of the annual cocoa industry excellence reward scheme.
Ghana Cocoa Awards is an initiative instituted to appreciate and highlight outstanding…
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Ghana Must Prioritise Value Addition Against Export Of Raw Cocoa
Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, has called for a shift away from the export of raw cocoa to a focus on local value addition and consumption.
He noted that current and past governments…
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5 Reasons Ghana Cocoa Dinner Is Industry’s Top Networking Event
Ghana Cocoa Dinner is Africa's foremost and biggest gathering of captains of the cocoa industry for networking and celebration of excellence.
Ahead of the 4th annual edition of the prestigious awards and gala night, we have been sampling…
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Ivory Coast Sells 2023/24 Cocoa With Positive Origin Premium
Ivory Coast has started selling cocoa contracts for the 2023/24 season with a non-negative premium industry.
The action happens to be the first of its kind in three years as regulators seek to support farmers.
According to Reuters,…
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Increase Cocoa Price By 30%, Galamsey Is Claiming More Farms
Cocoa farmers in Ghana have warned that the country could lose more productive cocoa farms to illegal mining if cocoa prices remain unchanged.
This alarm by cocoa farmers comes ahead of this year's Cocoa Day (October 1), which marks the…
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Nigeria Veep Yemi Osinbajo To Headline National Cocoa Festival
Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will lead stakeholders at the 2022 National Cocoa Festival to discuss sustainable ways to boost the cocoa industry value chain in the country, the Guardian has reported.
The annual festival is…
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How Will Lab-Grown Chocolate Impact West Africa’s Cocoa Farmers?
They call it the future of chocolate.
It’s edible, melts, breaks, and even tastes like chocolate except it is grown in a food lab facility without using a single cocoa bean.
While the production of non-cocoa chocolate is still in its…
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