Production

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 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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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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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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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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News about China exporting cocoa to Belgium has unsettled many in Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa beans exporter. Concerns are that the Chinese, with capital and technology, will outcompete Africa's cocoa producers whose…
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More than 5,000 hectares of cocoa farmlands in the Western North Region have been destroyed by illegal mining activities (galamsey). This was disclosed by the Deputy Chief Executive in-Charge of Agronomy and Quality Control at the Ghana…
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Global snacking giant, Mondelēz International and Olam, a leading supplier of cocoa beans and cocoa ingredients, have teamed up to create a 2000-hectare sustainable commercial cocoa farm in Indonesia. The world's single largest commercial…
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World's number one cocoa beans producer - Ivory Coast - has reduced its farmgate price for the commodity by 9 percent, according to International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO)'s Cocoa Market Report for March 2021. This price reduction means…
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There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it. Last year the retail industry was worth $107bn (£78bn), according to one projection, but Ghana - the world's second-largest cocoa…
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