COCOA POST

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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World Confectionery Conference 2022 opens to the general public in Brussels, Belgium, on September 9. The one-day event will assemble delegates and suppliers from across the world under one roof. Ahead of the event, organisers have been…
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West African cocoa, particularly from Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, is battling a negative perception in the marketplace. Cocoa growers in these countries are contending with the tag of deforestation and child labour on their produce along with…
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Fairtrade Africa has reviewed its impact across the continent through the use of Fairtrade premiums and other programmatic and project interventions. These programmatic and project interventions as well as the Fairtrade premium were noted…
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A baseline survey conducted by the Coconut Waste Project (COWAP) shows that there is a growing market for coconut peat (mulch) growing medium in Ghana, Chief Executive of CocoBenz, Bender Owusu Bediako Antwi has said. Speaking to the…
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Substandard pesticides are said to be penetrating the agro-input market in Ghana on the back of the rising cost of authentic crop nutrition products globally. Global prices of quality fertilisers and pesticides are getting more and more…
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