COCOA POST

In line with activities marking this year’s World Food Safety Day, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, Barry Callebaut Ghana has taken the message of food safety to some key cocoa-growing…
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Civil society activists operating within Ghana's cocoa sector have blown the alarm on the continuous destruction of cocoa farmlands and water sources by illegal gold miners. New investigative video footage on the state of water sources…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has adopted the use of cocopeat and re-usable receptacles as new technologies for raising cocoa seedlings at nursery sites. The green technologies of cocopeat growing medium and re-usable plastic containers…
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A new type of frog named Litoria Mira has become the latest discovery from the rainforest swamps of the Australian island of New Guinea. Australian scientists who discovered the amphibian have called it the "Chocolate frog" owing to its…
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The Seed Production Division of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has successfully raised 92 million hybrid cocoa seedlings for the 2020/2021 Crop Season. The hybrid cocoa seedlings are targeted at supporting the ongoing Cocoa Rehabilitation…
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A total of 15,600 female cocoa farmers in Ghana are to benefit from a £257,000 Cadbury Farmer Resilience Fund grant to set up a range of climate-smart small enterprises. The women are part of nine partner cocoa farmer cooperatives within…
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I am sure when we heard of China’s first export of 500 Kilograms of cocoa beans to Belgium we cringed asking ourselves, can China produce cocoa beans? Well, for me, I have rather wondered exactly what pride there is in being acclaimed as…
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The 5-year Next Generation Cocoa Youth Programme (MASO) to create employment opportunities for young people mostly in cocoa-farming communities in Ghana has officially come to an end. The programme, also known as MASO, was funded by the…
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The Emirati city of Dubai has achieved global acclaim as one of the world's most popular holiday and tourism destinations. But what Dubai is not known for is a reputation as an international trade centre for cocoa. I bet you would not have…
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The Rainforest Alliance (RA), an international non-profit organization, has announced Santiago Gowland as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Gowland joins RA from The Nature Conservancy, where he served as Executive Vice President…
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