COCOA POST

The Federal Government of Nigeria has taken a cue from Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire’s Living Income Differential initiative for cocoa producers to address challenges facing the country’s cocoa sector. In view of this, a National Cocoa…
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Subsidised fertiliser meant for Ghana's cocoa farmers is reportedly being diverted and sold by unscrupulous persons. COCOBOD, the Ghanaian cocoa sector regulator, provides subsidised fertilisers, chemicals and other farm inputs as…
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The Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) Ghana Country Director, Robert Austin, is leading calls for measures to improve productivity in cashew production in  Ghana. He made the call at a sensitization programme on a new Code…
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Global cocoa production giants Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire say effective this month, August 2022, their cocoa would sell at a positive origin differential, a market premium earned for the quality of produce. The resolve announced by the Cote…
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A joint platform of Ghanaian and Ivorian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and cocoa farmers has made a strong call for reforms in the international pricing mechanism for cocoa to guarantee a living income for farmers. The group has…
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Ghana is said to be paying as much as $400 million yearly in cocoa producer price subsidies following a sustained assault on the international market price for the commodity. The country in September 2020 announced an unprecedented 28…
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Major cocoa buyers have agreed to pay a premium and back a price floor on cocoa sold by Ivory Coast and Ghana as part of an agreement reached on Friday to combat poverty among farmers. Cocoa industry players will back a fixed "living income…
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Global cocoa-producing giants, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, are suspecting chocolate companies of perpetrating a deliberate price manipulation scheme for their produce, much to the disadvantage of their farmers. The Chief Executive of Ghana…
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Leading multi-national chocolate companies and key industry actors have assembled in Accra, the capital of Ghana, for crunch discussions bordering on cocoa trade at the instance of the Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI). A…
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The five-member Audit Committee of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has been inaugurated by Dr. Eric Oduro Osae, the Director-General of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA). He asked the committee members to be guided by the Public Financial…
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