Regulatory

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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Kenya is the leading exporter of black tea in the world. The East African nation earned about US$1.1 billion from exports in 2019, and an additional 200 million dollars from domestic sales. Kenya, which has been growing tea since the…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has procured 40,000 units of password-protected electronic weighing scales ahead of the commencement of the 2021/22 crop season in October. The scales are to be distributed to all Licensed Buying Companies…
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Pilot registration for Ghana's Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme is set to commence from Monday 30th August 2021. Public Affairs Manager for Ghana Cocoa Board, Fiifi Boafo, who made the disclosure also indicated the pilot phase of the scheme…
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The governments of Ghana and Ivory Coast are set to sign the Headquarters Agreement for the Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative secretariat based in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. The Agreement to be signed in Accra, Thursday 5th August,…
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The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, has appointed Mr Peter Mac Manu as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the country's cocoa regulator, COCOBOD. Mr Mac Manu replaces Mr Hackman Owusu Agyemang, who has chaired the body…
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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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Ghana's cocoa farmers pension scheme is said to commence operations by October 2021 with the onboarding of some 1.5 million farmers. The National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) says it has been working at the modalities for…
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Ghana's Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has been elected the first Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Cote d'Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (ICCIG). Dr Akoto's election marks an important step in…
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Ghana's record cocoa production in a decade has necessitated additional borrowing from the domestic market to finance purchases. As of June 3 2021, the world's second-largest cocoa producer had recorded 965,493 metric tonnes in cocoa…
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