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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 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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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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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, 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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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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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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The chairman of the Ghana Cooperative Council, Dr Bernad Bingab, has stated that the country's inability to exempt cocoa cooperatives from tax may be contributing to declining annual output. Ghana has, for two consecutive crop seasons,…
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Some cocoa processors in Ghana are said to have halted operations due to an acute shortage of cocoa beans. A source close to the matter told Cocoa Post that some grinders in the West African country had not received cocoa bean allocations…
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A new report by VOICE has pointed to harmful business behaviour as the root cause of persistent social and environmental problems within the cocoa industry and proposes radical reforms to buying practices. This is the conclusion…
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