Regulatory

Ghana has increased its cocoa producer price from GHS660 to GHS800 per bag for its 2022/23 crop, said Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Minister of Food and Agriculture in Accra, on Wednesday. The new farmgate price which represents a 21%…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has secured its thirtieth successive cocoa syndicated loan facility to purchase the country's 2022/23 crop. The $1.13 pre-export receivables backed trade finance facility was pooled by a consortium of…
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Dawn of life, a cocoa farming community near Akorabo in the Suhum Cocoa District will benefit from an ultra-modern community water project from Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) as the cocoa regulator marks 75 years of existence. This was…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is set to begin the full-scale rollout of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme effective this month, October 2022. The Board Chairman of Cocobod, Peter Mac Manu, disclosed this at the 2022 Cocoa Day celebrations…
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has taken a cue from Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire’s Living Income Differential initiative for cocoa producers to address challenges facing the country’s cocoa sector. In view of this, a National Cocoa…
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The five-member Audit Committee of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has been inaugurated by Dr. Eric Oduro Osae, the Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA). He asked the committee members to be guided by the Public Financial…
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Bilateral cooperation between West African neighbours, Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, introduced a new cocoa pricing mechanism in 2019 targeting a floor price of $2600 per tonne. Chocolate companies and cocoa traders accepted the proposal…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has suggested to cocoa farmers in Ghana to resort to the use of poultry manure for farming due to a looming fertilizer shortage across the world. He attributed the…
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Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer, on Friday 3rd September 2021 closed its Light Crop Season bringing the 2020/21 cocoa crop year to an end. A circular signed by the acting Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Dr.…
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Opanyin Kwabena Nkrumah, 103 years from Adansi Atobiase, volunteered as one of the cocoa farmers who showed up at the early hours on the first day of the Pilot Registration exercise of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme. After spending…
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