COCOA POST

The Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) of Ivory Coast has helped the national police to seize three trucks loaded with 1,500 bags of cocoa beans on the border with Guinea, the regulator's managing director said on Friday. Low farmgate prices…
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Cocoa production in Ghana has been falling off the cliff since posting a record 1.047 million metric tonnes (MT) at the close of the 2020/21 season. The country, currently the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, has seen its crop…
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Dear chocolate lovers, Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you spend this day with the people you love, enjoying delicious chocolates in between. My name is Leticia Yankey, a cocoa farmer from Ghana. I am writing this letter in…
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A recently leaked official letter from the Ghana Cocoa Board, granting a request from the Afrotropic Cocoa Processing Company Limited to import cocoa beans into the country for processing, has led to some anxiety among stakeholders in the…
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A Ghanaian cocoa farmer, Issifu Issaka, has challenged chocolate companies to stop hiding under the demand and supply chorus and pay fair prices that assure cocoa farmers a living income. Issaka decried the continuous lip service and…
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Cocoa futures extended their surge to a record in New York as a shortfall gripped the market, threatening to make chocolate and other confectionery costlier. Prices have doubled during the past year as growers in West Africa — who produce…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has revealed that over 500,000 hectares of cocoa farms in Ghana have been lost to the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD), posing a major threat to the country’s…
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The Board Chairman of the Ghana Cooperative Council, Dr Bernad Bingab, has encouraged African leaders to adopt the agricultural cooperatives model for improvements in both food security and economic development across the continent.…
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Solidaridad, an international civil society organisation, has partnered with the Department of Co-operatives (DoC) in Ghana to facilitate the establishment of a robust regional and national cooperative association to increase the…
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During my MPhil project, I undertook a survey to understand people’s perceptions and knowledge about sugar-free chocolate in Accra. One topic that kept coming up was "chocolate without added sugar, then it is not sweet." This prompted…
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