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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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COCOBOD Secures $600 Million AfDB Loan Facility to Boost Cocoa Industry
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has secured a $600 million syndicated loan facility from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Credit Suisse Group AG, to finance key components of the organisation’s productivity enhancement programmes.
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Ghanaian Farmer’s Amazing Testimonial About Cocoa Hand Pollination
A young Cocoa Farmer at Bompieso in the Huni Valley Cocoa District, Alex Appiah, has narrated and testified in a video recorded on his farm, the impact of the cocoa hand pollination exercise carried out on his farm this year.
In the said…
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Ghana Cuts 2019/2020 Cocoa Crop Projection to 850k Tonnes
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has revised downward by 16 percent the cocoa crop target – from 950,000 metric tonnes to 850,000 metric tonnes.
Ghana's cut in production was disclosed by the Chief Executive of Cocobod, Joseph Boahen Aidoo,…
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COCOBOD to Invest Funds for Farmers Scholarship Scheme into Schools Infrastructure
Ghana's cocoa sector regulator, COCOBOD, has hinted of plans to invest funds for the COCOBOD Farmers Scholarship Scheme into schools infrastructure development for needy cocoa communities.
The scholarship scheme, widely known as COCOBOD…
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Pension Scheme for Cocoa Farmers in Final Stages of Development – COCOBOD Chief
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has reiterated the government’s commitment to set up a cocoa farmer pension scheme for all cocoa farmers across the country.
Mr. Aidoo stated that COCOBOD is working closely…
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COCOBOD Bans Incentives Paid to Farmers per Bag of Cocoa Sold
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has banned the use of all forms of incentives given to cocoa farmers on a bag of cocoa beans sold.
According to the board, the incentives had resulted in unhealthy competition among Licensed Cocoa Buying…
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Ghana Cocoa Board Denies Reports of Increase in Cocoa Producer Price
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has denied media reports that it plans to increase the producer price paid to cocoa farmers in the 2019/20 cocoa season to GH¢8,000 per tonne.
It said beyond the reports being untrue, they were premature as…
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Ghana-Ivory Coast $400 Living Income Differential in Cocoa Price Not a Surcharge – COCOBOD…
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has assured the $400 Living Income Differential introduced jointly with Ivory Coast on cocoa is not a surcharge.
"We will like to correct the misrepresentation of the…
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COCOBOD Dismisses Bloomberg’s No Buyer Report as “Prepared Script”
Official spokesperson for Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr. Fiifi Boafo, has rejected a Bloomberg report Friday claiming Ghana Cocoa got no buyers on first market appearance since $400 premium.
Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world's largest…
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