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Tech & Innovation category places a special focus on technology and innovations in the cocoa industry value chain in terms of process improvement, technology, efficiency, upcycling, etc
Digital Payments Securing Financial Inclusion for Cocoa Farmers
Cash has been the common traditional payment for cocoa bean purchases. Unarguably, a lot of risk is associated with cash transactions along the cocoa supply chain.
The World Cocoa Foundation's Peter Sheilo Baghr shares insights on the…
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Uncoordinated Business Processes The Bane Of Ghana Cocoa Supply Chain – Dutch Study
Findings of a Dutch university research sighted by Cocoa Post have pointed to poor coordination in business processes as a major challenge confronting Ghana's cocoa sector.
A 3-member team of researchers from Wageningen University and…
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This Is How A Ghanaian Software Is Enabling Financial Inclusion For Cocoa Farmers
A software for purchasing and monitoring cocoa electronically is set to drive the cash-lite agenda for financial inclusion in the country.
Popularly called CocoaAsempa, the software has enhanced financial intermediation and inclusion…
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CocoaAsempa – How a Software Became a Life-Saver For Purchasing Cocoa in Ghana
A digital platform - CocoaAsempa Software - has emerged to transform the Cocoa purchasing and monitoring process in Ghana.
The platform has created a cashless mode for cash movement for Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs). Also, a means to…
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Buhler Training Facility Opens In Ivory Coast To Aid Increased Processing Of Cocoa In Africa
Swiss food processing technology giant, Bühler Group, has opened an ultra-modern Agroindustrial Training & Innovation Center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Christened the Buhler Cocoa Competence Center (CFIA), the facility becomes the first…
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Buhler Eulogises Herbert Max Fraenkel The ‘Father Of Optical Sorting’
Herbert personified Sortex and he’d been prominent from its beginning until he retired
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Rawlings Commends COCOBOD for Introducing Motorized Pruners
Ghana's former President Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has commended the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) for the introduction of motorized slashers and pruners for effective control of weeds on cocoa farms as well as the removal of excess…
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Agric Technology Firm – FarmLogics – Poised to Transform Cocoa Sector with Software…
Farmlogics Pvt Limited, an agric technology and software consulting company based out of Cochin, India, has won the prestigious award of best technology provider in the cocoa sector at Ghana Cocoa Awards 2019 held in Accra.
As the provider…
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COCOBOD Takes Delivery of 100,000 Motorized Pruners & Slashers for Cocoa Farmers
Cocoa farming in the country will soon become less laborious as Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) takes delivery of some 100,000 pieces of motorized slashers for distribution to cocoa farmers across the country through farmer cooperatives.
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Cocoa Juice Factory Opens in Ghana
A cocoa fruit juice factory has been inaugurated at Akrofuom in the Assin South District in the Central Region of Ghana.
KoA Cocoa Ghana Limited is intended to add value to cocoa and ram up cocoa consumption on both the local and the…
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