COCOA POST

Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG, Fuchs & Hoffmann and Ascot Amsterdam are collaborating on setting up an economically viable and resilient cocoa production system that will improve the lives of cocoa…
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Cocoa buying and processing company, Cargill, has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Cargill Schools Project at Adjeikojo, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. The Project which is being executed in partnership with CARE…
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Ghana's cocoa regulator COCOBOD is partnering with the country's Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) to undertake research to back some anecdotal nutritional and health properties of cocoa. The work is said to focus on specific components…
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Ivory Coast wrestled the world's top producer of cocoa position from West African neighbour, Ghana, in 1978 and has since not looked back. For 4years and counting the country's annual cocoa crop output has surpassed the 2million metric…
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Educational institutions periodically upgrade their curriculum and pedagogy to meet the new standards of education. However, classroom ergonomics, i.e. seating arrangement, desks, and chairs in the classroom, which are one of the most…
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Ghana's capital Accra is playing host to Fairtrade Africa's two-day West Africa Regional Fairtrade Convention from 13th to 14th June 2021. The 2021 edition of the biennial event is on the theme “Building Producer Resilience through trade”…
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According to Eurococoa.com: "Cocoa trees grow exclusively in areas that meet certain specific conditions. The cocoa belt is an area of land around the equator between 20 degrees latitude north and south. Most cocoa even grows within 10…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reported promising results from its pilot cocoa farm irrigation project launched two years. Data from the COCOBOD indicate that farmers who signed on to the pilot phase of the irrigation programme in the…
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Barry Callebaut has disclosed plans to open its third chocolate factory in Russia's Kaliningrad region to firm up its presence in the world’s third-largest chocolate confectionery market. The factory located in the special economic zone of…
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On the occasion of its silver jubilee, global chocolate manufacturing giant Barry Callebaut has affirmed the commitment to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025, and reiterated its resolve to protect cocoa products and chocolate for…
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