Regulatory

Ghana and Ivory Coast are said to cancel all cocoa sustainability schemes run by American chocolate manufacturing giant - Hershey - within their jurisdictions, according to reports by Reuters News Agency. The chocolate maker is allegedly…
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According to Ghana’s Cocoa Regulator, COCOBOD, 83 per cent of all cocoa tree stock in the Nankese District of the Eastern Region have been infected by the swollen shoot virus disease (CSSVD). This, according to the experts, coupled with…
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Ghana’s cocoa regulator has threatened to suspend the sustainability schemes used by major cocoa and chocolate companies to assure consumers that the beans they use are sustainably and ethically sourced. In comments to the World Cocoa…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana stand to rake in some whooping Gh¢11,484 from every acre of farm if every tree on their farm is supported to produce at least 60 mature pods. An acre of a well lined and pegged farm contains about 435 cocoa trees and…
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Precision in the database of all cocoa farmers and cocoa transactions may see a big change in Ghana, where unreliable data and uncertainties about cocoa yield, robberies associated with cash transaction and the lack of operator transparency…
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The Ghana Cocoa Board, armed with the first tranche of a US$600 million medium-term loan secured from a consortium of international lenders led by the African Development Bank, has begun the first step towards a fundamental restructuring of…
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JoyNews investigations have uncovered how some Licensed Buying Companies and farmer society groups illegally rent their certification licenses to businessmen to enable them to export regular cocoa as certified ones. It came to the fore…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has in his annual Cocoa Day message postponed the launch of the widely anticipated Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme till further notice. " Government of Ghana had given an…
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The Managing Director of Volta Impex Limited, Ishak Mutawakil, has promised his company's preparedness to fix the Nkawkaw Noyem to New Abirem road in 12 months barring any hitches. He said the company is committed to completing the…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has announced the opening of the 2020/21 main crop cocoa season effective Friday 2nd October 2020. Per the publication, Cocobod is sending the signal to licenced cocoa buying companies (LBSs) to be on the…
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