COCOA POST

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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Ghana is set to announce a significant increase in the cocoa producer price for the upcoming 2023/24 crop season beginning September 8. The cocoa producer price or farmgate price is the amount paid by the government to farmers for a 64kg…
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Gablin Foods Limited, producer of origin cocoa products from Ghana, has landed supply deals with key distributors in the Chinese fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. When the contracts are finally firmed up by the parties, Gablin…
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Ghana is set to open the 2023/24 crop season for the purchases of cocoa beans one month earlier than usual on Friday, 8 September 2023. The world's second-largest cocoa producer has traditionally announced the opening of a new crop season…
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Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCO), a Ghanaian licensed cocoa buying company has presented a cheque for GHS16 million (about $1.4m) as a premium to certified cocoa farmers for the 2022/2023 crop season at Assin Foso in the Central…
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Koa, a Ghanaian-Swiss startup, has successfully commissioned into operation Africa's largest cocoa fruit processing factory in Akim Achiase, Ghana. The facility raised at the cost of $10 million is the company's second in the world's…
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German chocolate-alternative product Nocoa has successfully rebranded as ChoViva, signalling readiness to appear on supermarket shelves. ChoViva, which is produced by the Bavaria-based Planet A Foods, is said to usher in a 'brand new era…
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