COCOA POST

Cocoa farmers in Ghana will for the first time have the opportunity to join their counterparts in Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon in a new competition to promote cocoa agroforestry. The winner gets to undertake a trip to Cameroon to study best…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is set to commence a process to hand over 51,000 hectares of successfully rehabilitated cocoa farms to owners. The cocoa farms are part of some 136,000 hectares of moribund and Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease…
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A whopping 1.56 million underage children allegedly continue to be caught up in child labour in cocoa farms and allied setups globally, despite earlier promises by cocoa and chocolate big players to fight the canker. According to the…
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Cocoa production in key regions in Ghana, especially the Western North Region, has declined to a historic low in recent years. With about 70 percent of farms in the region estimated to be affected, cocoa production volumes have been…
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A preliminary report has cited the lack of information about the Living Income Differential (LID) as a source of potential threat to its implementation. "Little information on the policy is giving rise to potentially different and…
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When in 1997 the Parliament of Ghana passed the Timber Resources Management law (ACT 547), the spirit was to have legislation to ensure the utilisation of the natural resource in a sustainable manner. Section 19 of the Act prescribed the…
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The government of Ivory Coast is set to launch the West African country's National Strategy for Sustainable Cocoa production. According to government sources, the strategy will be based on improving the income of cocoa farmers and their…
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Ghana's cocoa industry regulator, Cocobod, has warned of a looming fertilizer shortage on the back of the Russia-Ukraine war. According to Chief Executive Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the West African country's cocoa farmers may have to consider a…
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For the intermediate marketing campaign which opens on April 1, the farm gate price per kilogram of cocoa is maintained at 825 FCFA, as in the main campaign. The announcement was made by the Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture and…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has suggested to cocoa farmers in Ghana to resort to the use of poultry manure for farming due to a looming fertilizer shortage across the world. He attributed the…
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