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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
Ghana’s $230-Million Cocoa Farm Rehabilitation Programme Takes Off
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has begun its cocoa farm rehabilitation programme to cut down and replant diseased and over-aged cocoa farms across the country.
This farm rehabilitation programme forms part of strategic and long term…
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Ghana’s Free Cocoa Farm Pruning Programme Begins
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will from this week begin a 100 percent pruning of all cocoa farms across the country at no cost to farmers.
This was revealed during a National Stakeholder Dialogue on cocoa farmgate pricing and income of cocoa…
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Ghana Cocoa Export Inches up Marginally
The Ghana COCOBOD has released figures which show that the country has exported cocoa beans as of January 2020 to the tune of 596,000 tonnes.
This is an increase in the export of cocoa beans recorded in the previous season which stood at…
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Nigeria Cocoa Stakeholders Demand Proactive Interventions to Make Cocoa Highest Forex Earner
Cocoa Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (CFAN), breeders and administrators have challenged the government to revive cocoa production as a top foreign exchange earner with proactive interventions.
The proactive interventions, they argue,…
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Mild Harmattan Winds Expected to Boost Ivory Coast Cocoa Crop
There was no rain last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions, but late and mild Harmattan winds this year have boosted expectations of strong harvests during the first two months of 2020, farmers said on Monday.
Ivory Coast,…
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Jomoro Municipal Assembly to Distribute 700,000 Cocoa Seedlings to Farmers
Cocoa farmers in Jomoro Municipality of Western Region are to benefit from the government's flagship programme, Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD).
The Municipal Assembly has promised to distribute seven hundred thousand…
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Cocoa Demand Outstrips Supply Two Months into New Season
Two months into the 2019/2020 cocoa crop season, demand continues to expand exponentially reflecting a steady growth of cocoa processing in Asia and Oceania as well as cocoa-producing countries themselves.
Data from the International Cocoa…
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Former Ghana President Kufuor Wins 2019 District Best Farmer
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been awarded as the 2019 best farmer of the Atwima Nwabiagya North District in the Ashanti Region.
The former President who is into both livestock and crop production has several hectares of farms,…
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COCOBOD Urged to Train Cocoa Farmers on Productivity Enhancement
The District Chief Executive for Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region, Agyeman Asiedu, has made an appeal to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to train cocoa farmers to undertake pruning and hand pollination on their own, to…
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Ghana to Boost Cocoa Production and Processing with $600m AfDB Facility
The government has announced plans to inject US$600 million into the cocoa sector.
The funds, being sourced from the African Development Bank (AfDB) will finance various initiatives such as mass cocoa spraying exercises, agronomic…
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