COCOA POST

Ghana Cocoa Dinner is Africa's foremost and biggest gathering of captains of the cocoa industry for networking and celebration of excellence. Ahead of the 4th annual edition of the prestigious awards and gala night, we have been sampling…
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Ivory Coast has started selling cocoa contracts for the 2023/24 season with a non-negative premium industry. The action happens to be the first of its kind in three years as regulators seek to support farmers. According to Reuters, Ivory…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana have warned that the country could lose more productive cocoa farms to illegal mining if cocoa prices remain unchanged. This alarm by cocoa farmers comes ahead of this year's Cocoa Day (October 1), which marks the…
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Barry Callebaut as part of its efforts to promote sustainable cocoa production has commenced a program intended to reward farmers who show a high level of commitment to supporting sustainable cocoa farming in Nigeria. Under the program,…
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Processing cocoa has generated more revenue in the cocoa sector worldwide, says the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo. This, he said has sparked COCOBOD’s interest to pursue processing and to develop…
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A Position Paper by Cocoa Post The European Commission in November 2021, tabled a proposed legislation before the EU parliament that will enforce regulation on certain imported products on its market deemed to be associated with…
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Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will lead stakeholders at the 2022 National Cocoa Festival to discuss sustainable ways to boost the cocoa industry value chain in the country, the Guardian has reported. The annual festival is…
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With 70% of the world’s cocoa coming from West Africa, it comes as a surprise that less than 1% of world chocolate is produced at the origin. This gives cocoa producers, especially smallholder farmers, only a meagre share in the estimated…
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They call it the future of chocolate. It’s edible, melts, breaks, and even tastes like chocolate except it is grown in a food lab facility without using a single cocoa bean. While the production of non-cocoa chocolate is still in its early…
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The Auditor-General of Ghana, Johnson Akuamoah Asiedu, has raised concerns about the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (Cocobod) increasing debt burden – which stood at approximately GH¢12.30billion as of September 2020. The debt accumulation emanates…
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