COCOA POST

Barry Callebaut, a global chocolate giant, has outdoored three engineering students from West Africa into its Africa Engineering Masters Program for the 2022/23 academic year. The three engineering graduates were selected from Ghana and…
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Koa, a Ghanaian-Swiss startup, says it has achieved a breakthrough payment transparency system using blockchain technology that proves payments and higher income for cocoa farmers. The transparency system, which is a product of…
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Fairtrade Africa has held a joint planning and review meeting with its partners to assess the progress of implementation of the West Africa Cocoa Programme (WACP). The meeting also afforded the certification organisation the opportunity to…
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"The search of international cocoa buying firms for new sources of cocoa produced in forest areas at cheaper cost undermines production in older established areas.  Thus, the price of cocoa deters farmers from accumulating capital in cocoa…
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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has appealed to stakeholders in the cocoa sector, particularly financial institutions and international non-governmental organisations, for support to upscale cocoa farm irrigation. The COCOBOD piloted the…
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Cocoa production in Ghana can see a significant increase if more investment is made in irrigating cocoa farms. This means, the cash crop will not only be harvested all year round but increase production between four to five folds for…
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At the recently held Africa- EU Week celebration from the 14th to 18th February 2022, young Fairtrade producers were part of a series of side events organised by the youth on key thematics relating to integrated development on the African…
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Thousands of smallholder cocoa farmers in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality of the Western Region of Ghana say they risk losing their farms in the coming weeks, as their landlord pushes through his plan to chop down all cocoa trees to…
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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO)of the Ghana Investments Promotions Centre (GIPC), Yofi Grant has said it was time Ghana committed to making the needed financial investments to tap into the full potential of cocoa and chocolate industry…
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