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Production category catalogues the general activities involving cocoa bean production as a raw material and may capture seedling production, farming, agronomic practices, harvesting, post-harvest condition, disease, warehousing and haulage, etc
COCOBOD To Introduce Mini Farm Trucks For Cocoa Farmers
Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has hinted of plans to introduce mini farm trucks to cocoa farmers to aid the carting of essential farm inputs between farms and the communities.
The initiative is part of efforts by the Ghanaian cocoa sector…
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Report Arrears To District Managers For Immediate Payment – LICOBAG To Cocoa Farmers
The Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana (LICOBAG) has dismissed reports in the local media claiming that buyers are indebted to cocoa farmers running into several months.
Reacting to the allegations at a press conference in…
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3 Ghanaians Among 50 Shortlisted In Cocoa of Excellence 2021
Cocoa of Excellence (CoEx) has announced the 50 finalists shortlisted for the 2021 International Cocoa Awards, where Ghana has repeated its 2019 feat with three spots.
Entries by Seth Yirenkyi and Charlse Oppong, both from Suhum in the…
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Ghana Records Highest Ever Cocoa Output In Its Production History
Ghana has exceeded the 1 million tonnes mark in cocoa production for the first time since the 2010/11 crop season.
Sources say the world's no.2 top producer has recorded one million and thirty thousand tonnes (1,030,000MT) with 10 weeks…
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Ghana Sees Positive Results With Pilot Cocoa Irrigation Project
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reported promising results from its pilot cocoa farm irrigation project launched two years.
Data from the COCOBOD indicate that farmers who signed on to the pilot phase of the irrigation programme in the…
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Solidaridad And EU Partner to Enhance Liberia Cocoa Value Chain
Solidaridad West Africa and the European Union Delegation in Liberia have teamed up on a new initiative to increase incomes and improve livelihoods in the Liberia cocoa value chain.
The intervention dubbed the Cocoa Value Chain…
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Cocopeat Technology Replaces Dependence On Topsoil
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has described cocopeat technology as the best alternative to the dependence on topsoil for raising cocoa seedlings.
Prior to adopting the technology at its nursery sites, the organisation relied on topsoil, a…
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COCOBOD Adopts Green Technologies For Cocoa Seedling Production
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has adopted the use of cocopeat and re-usable receptacles as new technologies for raising cocoa seedlings at nursery sites.
The green technologies of cocopeat growing medium and re-usable plastic containers…
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Ghana Produces 92million Hybrid Cocoa Seedlings For 2020/21 Crop Year
The Seed Production Division of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has successfully raised 92 million hybrid cocoa seedlings for the 2020/2021 Crop Season.
The hybrid cocoa seedlings are targeted at supporting the ongoing Cocoa Rehabilitation…
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Ghana Cocoa Farmers Threaten To Give Up Farmlands Over Delayed Payment
Hundreds of tonnes of cocoa beans are stuck in a shed at Aboaso in the Juaboso District of the Western North Region because they have not been purchased.
Obviously livid local cocoa farmers have threatened to give up their farmlands to…
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