COCOA POST

Ivory Coast cocoa farmers have mounted demand for a significant raise in cocoa farmgate prices ahead of the 2023/24 crop season which opens October 1. Ivorian Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (PICD), the official mouthpiece of cocoa…
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Rainforest Alliance has, as part of its “Yen Ne Mmofra No Nti” project, introduced the Human Rights Due Diligence Toolkit to help prevent, identify and address forced labour and child labour in the cocoa and gold sectors. The international…
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Forever and a day, Saturday 9th September, 2023 would remain etched indelibly in the memories of Ghanaian cocoa farmers for a very long time for the glad tidings it brought to their homes. The day was not only a great day but undeniably a…
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The Bodoma Old Ladies Cocoa Farmers’ Cooperative, a group instituted to empower women through knowledge sharing and support to create economic opportunities and positive change has been inaugurated at Bodoma, a cocoa community in the Bekwai…
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Federated Commodities Ltd (FEDCO) and partners, Storck and Walter Matter, have inaugurated a six-unit classroom block for Domeabra Primary School, near Asankragwa, in the Wassa Amenfi West Municipality of the Western Region. The facility,…
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Ivory Coast cocoa production in the upcoming 2023/24 crop season is projected to drop by as much as 20% compared to recent years due to poor weather, putting further upward pressure on prices, Reuters reported on Monday. Ivory Coast is the…
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Ghana has announced it will pay a farmgate price of GHS20,943.84 (USD1,821) per tonne and GHS1308.99 per 64kg bag of cocoa beans for the 2023/24 crop season, which officially opened Friday, 8 September 2023. This historic 63.6% price hike…
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Rainforest Alliance (RA) has praised some of its partner licensed cocoa buying companies (LBCs) in Ghana for paying the mandatory $70 per ton Sustainability Differential premium to cocoa farmers. RA, an international sustainability…
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A group of North American teachers have visited the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) to familiarise themselves with the history and research activities of the Institute. The visit was organised by the Witness Tree Institute of…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana are asking the government for a remarkable increase in the farmgate price of their produce to tackle poverty, cross-border smuggling and illegal mining on cocoa farms. Addressing the media in the Ghanaian capital,…
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