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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
Farmers Want 72.5% Increase In Ghana Cocoa Farmgate Price
Cocoa farmers in Ghana are asking the government for a remarkable increase in the farmgate price of their produce to tackle poverty, cross-border smuggling and illegal mining on cocoa farms.
Addressing the media in the Ghanaian capital,…
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How Losses and Competition Threaten Cocoa Sector in Ghana
Ghana risks losing its major foreign exchange earner cocoa, due to a combination of factors such as illegal mining, accumulated losses and major developments by some advanced countries to aggressively grow and export the crop.
The Ghana…
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Liberia Gets First National Cocoa Seed Garden
Liberia has established its first-ever national cocoa seed garden to provide quality and improved planting materials for smallholder farmers.
Until now the unavailability of quality planting material had been a major concern for the West…
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Cocobod Halts Free Cocoa Spraying At Elubo Over Smuggling
Ghana has suspended its free cocoa spraying programme at Elubo, a cocoa community on the border with Cote d'Ivoire over rampant smuggling.
The country's cocoa sector supervisory agency, Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), provides free cocoa…
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Farmers Call For Cocoa Pricing to Factor Cost of Production
"Over the years, I have been jotting down all the costs incurred in the production season. And I record losses, despite all the costly investments in labour and input because the price of cocoa does not factor our cost of production," says…
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Statistical Data on Cocoa Production in Ghana Since 1948
We are sharing here comprehensive data on cocoa production in Ghana dating back to the 1947/48 crop season.
Beyond capturing the annual national production output figures, this data also presents a rare insight into the regional…
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45-Year-Old Bismark Fuachie Is Ghana’s 2022 National Best Cocoa Farmer
A 45-year-old cocoa farmer, Bismark Fuachie, has been adjudged Ghana's 2022 National Best Cocoa Farmer.
Fuachie becomes the youngest cocoa farmer, in recent times, to win the coveted award. He was unveiled at a ceremony to commemorate the…
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Let’s Protect Cocoa Farms By Supporting Fight Against Galamsey
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has charged all Ghanaians to support the fight against ‘galamsey’ in cocoa growing areas as a form of deliberately protecting national pride.
It, therefore, wants all and sundry to join the campaign in…
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Farmers Want Financial Institutions Mandated To Finance Agriculture
Cocoa farmers in Ghana have called on the government to mandate financial institutions to finance agriculture as part of their credit portfolio.
This they believe will enable them to access funds needed to increase output.
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Black Pod Outbreak Following Rains Could Dampen Ghana’s Harvest
A raging incidence of the black pod disease is threatening cocoa crop yield over large swathes of farms across cocoa-producing regions in Ghana.
The outbreak, farmers told Cocoa Post is spreading at an alarming rate exacerbated by heavy…
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