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Value Addition
Value Addition is category is for spotlighting all efforts to add value to the cocoa tree and its produce at all levels of the value chain
Ghana Bags $2.89bn From Cocoa Derivatives And Other Non-Traditional Exports
Ghana bagged $2.89 billion from Non-Traditional Exports (NTEs) in 2019 according to figures from the Ghana Exports Promotions Authority (GEPA).
The 2019 non-traditional exports earnings was 3.10 per cent higher than that of 2018 which was…
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Tobago Cocoa Estate Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Wins Europe Award
Two centuries ago, sugar was the undisputed king of Tobago. But owing to the efforts of Tobagonian Duane Dove, owner and founder of Tobago Cocoa Estate, there is a new king in town – cocoa.
On 50 sprawling acres in Roxborough, the main…
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Lowa Chocolate Makes DR Congo The New Kid On The World Chocolate Block
Aisha Kalinda melts the chunks of cocoa in a pan and spoons the brown gloop into a mould which will become the latest bar produced at the Lowa chocolate factory, the first locally owned producer in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
For…
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3 Some Chocolates – The Story Of A Black Chocolatier Tired Of Being Fired
Getting laid off from a job can be stressful and discouraging, especially when you are a Black man in America dealing with systematic racism.
3 Some chocolates. What is that? Well, tired of getting fired and being paid less although having…
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This Is How The $600-Million COCOBOD Loan Is To Be Spent
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) on Tuesday unveiled the $600-million cocoa syndicated loan facility to revamp the West African country's cocoa sector.
The COCOBOD loan was pooled by a consortium of development finance institutions namely the…
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The Addison Sisters of 57 Chocolate Are Bringing Economic Empowerment To Ghana
Did you know most of the world's chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast and Ghana? The oldest chocolate maker, Switzerland, gets its cocoa beans from Ghana.
Yet, Ghana doesn't readily produce its own chocolate. What's more, is Ghana then…
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Meet the Two Young University of Ghana Graduates Producing Chocolate
Two young graduates of the University of Ghana have set up a cocoa processing factory in Anyinam in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region.
The two young men, Kwabena Opoku Amoah and Ernest Agyekum Amponsah, who graduated from the…
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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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Dapaah Chocolates Founder Speaks on Ghana & Ivory Coast Floor Price
A cocoa farmer and founder of Dapaah Chocolates based in London, United Kingdom, Raphael Dapaah, has shared his thoughts on the new cocoa floor price spearheaded by West African neighbours, Ghana and Ivory Coast.
The Dapaah Chocolates…
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