COCOA POST

Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has inspected the progress of work on the Benchema-Adjoafua road in the Western North Region. The inspection of the road forms part of the President's itinerary for his 2-day tour of the…
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Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer, on Friday 3rd September 2021 closed its Light Crop Season bringing the 2020/21 cocoa crop year to an end. A circular signed by the acting Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Dr.…
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Opanyin Kwabena Nkrumah, 103 years from Adansi Atobiase, volunteered as one of the cocoa farmers who showed up at the early hours on the first day of the Pilot Registration exercise of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme. After spending…
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In 1585 Europe received the first official shipment of cocoa beans at the Spanish port of Seville from Mexico, launching the international cocoa trade. Cocoa also referred to as Theobroma cacao (food of the gods) was consumed largely in…
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The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has appointed Martin Short as its new President, replacing Richard Scobey who left on May 1, 2021. Short is expected to lead efforts by cocoa and chocolate companies to make the cocoa supply chain…
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The immediate past District Chief Executive (DCE) for Adansi South in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Benjamin Anhwere, has endorsed the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme being implemented by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). The former DCE, who is…
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No less than three layers will have to be peeled off to get to the core of work of children in the West African cocoa sector. Terminology can harm, confuse, mislead and can destroy markets. That is why a fair representation of the labour…
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The Auditor General’s (AG) 2020 report on the public accounts of Ghana has disclosed that allocations totalling GHS7.3 million (US$1.5 million) for the Cocoa Farmers Wards Scholarship Trust Fund have been misapplied. According to the AG’s…
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Pilot registration under the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme for a cross-section of Ghanaian cocoa growers has taken off in the Ashanti Region. Some 2,800 volunteer farmers from the New Edubiase District are expected to be captured within the…
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The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) wants the country to replicate the success of its quality standards for cocoa in the shea sector to multiply gains. Acting Director-General of CRIG, Dr. Francis Padi, has thus called for the…
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