COCOA POST

The Government of Ghana through the Ghana Cocoa Board is developing a Cocoa Management System, CMS, to enable Ghana to meet the European(EU) due diligence requirements, Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has…
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Ghana's Niche Cocoa Industry is set to open the largest African-origin food and beverage company in the history of the United States of America. The Ghanaian cocoa processing giant is currently in the process of turning a…
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Ghana has increased its cocoa producer price from GHS660 to GHS800 per bag for its 2022/23 crop, said Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Minister of Food and Agriculture in Accra, on Wednesday. The new farmgate price which represents a 21%…
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A raging incidence of the black pod disease is threatening cocoa crop yield over large swathes of farms across cocoa-producing regions in Ghana. The outbreak, farmers told Cocoa Post is spreading at an alarming rate exacerbated by heavy…
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The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) 2022 partnership meeting is set to discuss how public policy can help fight child labour through a systems approach, with Ghana’s Minister of Employment and Labor Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah as part of…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has secured its thirtieth successive cocoa syndicated loan facility to purchase the country's 2022/23 crop. The $1.13 pre-export receivables backed trade finance facility was pooled by a consortium of…
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Dawn of life, a cocoa farming community near Akorabo in the Suhum Cocoa District will benefit from an ultra-modern community water project from Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) as the cocoa regulator marks 75 years of existence. This was…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is set to begin the full-scale rollout of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme effective this month, October 2022. The Board Chairman of Cocobod, Peter Mac Manu, disclosed this at the 2022 Cocoa Day celebrations at…
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The government of Ghana has failed to announce a much-anticipated cocoa farmgate price for the 2022/23 cocoa season commencing October 1, 2022. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Yaw Frimpong Addo, addressing a rally of cocoa farmers and…
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The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has donated assorted reading and learning materials to 22 basic schools in deprived cocoa communities in the Suhum District of the Eastern Region. The donation formed part of WCF's contribution towards…
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