COCOA POST

Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator, Conseil Cafe Cacao (CCC), has called out leading chocolate makers for refusal to pay the Living Income Differential (LID), a $400-per-tonne premium. West African neighbours and the world's top two cocoa…
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The Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) has planted 1,500 trees to help the government achieve its objective of planting 5 million trees to green Ghana. Shade trees of all kinds nursed by Form Ghana were distributed to 351 member cocoa…
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The US Supreme Court has made a ruling absolving food giants Nestle and Cargill of any wrongdoing in a child slavery suit brought against them by six men from Mali. The apex court's decision effectively reverses a lower-court ruling that…
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The Programmes Director of Fairtrade Africa, Chris Oluoch, has disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted adversely on farmers in Africa, with many losing up to 80 percent of their revenue. Aside from the revenue losses occasioned…
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The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) has petitioned the sector minister to urgently reform the country's fertilizer subsidy programme over allegations of poor management and corruption. The…
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Solidaridad West Africa and the European Union Delegation in Liberia have teamed up on a new initiative to increase incomes and improve livelihoods in the Liberia cocoa value chain. The intervention dubbed the Cocoa Value Chain…
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On the 27th of May 2021, Ghana Investment Promotion Authority (GIPC), organised the GIPC Cocoa Value Chain Investment Meeting with key stakeholders in the sector. As a cocoa farmer’s son with a keen personal and professional interest in…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has described cocopeat technology as the best alternative to the dependence on topsoil for raising cocoa seedlings. Prior to adopting the technology at its nursery sites, the organisation relied on topsoil, a…
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About 1.7 million people in Ivory Coast will be connected to the municipal electricity grid by 2023 when the construction of a cocoa-powered renewable energy plant is completed. The project in the cocoa-growing town of Divo is being…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planting over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country and also as part of its National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme. COCOBOD is embarking on a…
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