Cargill Cocoa Promise Delivers GH¢6m Cocoa Sustainability Payments To Ghanaian Farmers
The 2019/2020 cocoa season has seen over 19,000 cocoa farmers become beneficiaries of the GH¢6million disbursed by Cargill last month through its Licensed Buying Company (LBC), Cargill Kokoo Sourcing Limited (CKSL) as sustainability…
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First Tranche of $1.3 Billion Syndicated Loan Hits COCOBOD’s Account Oct. 10
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will on 10th October 2020 receive the first tranche of the $1.3 billion syndicated loan facility secured for cocoa purchases in the 2020/21 crop season.
Officials of COCOBOD and the lead arrangers of the…
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Kelik Potassium A New Cocoa Fertilizer To Boost Bean Weight And Volume Launched
A new cocoa foliar fertilizer, Kelik Potassium has been launched to help farmers in the cocoa sector to increase the weight, volume and quality of cocoa beans for export in Ghana.
The product, Kelik Potassium has a high source of Potassium…
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COCOBOD Boss Joseph Boahen Aidoo To Receive Ivory Coast National Honour
Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is billed to receive a national recognition in Ivory Coast on 1st October 2020.
President Alassane Dramane Ouattara will be bestowing the honour on the COCOBOD…
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Knowing Your Cocoa And Its Quality Parametres: Cocoa Butter
Cocoa Butter: The Fat Parametre
You might have heard of the name cocoa butter pomade, chocolate bars, chocolate cake, and chocolate chip ice cream and might not have consciously realized that it is actually coming from cocoa. Of course,…
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Cocoa Freight Negotiation For 2020/21 Season Held In Accra
The Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), together with the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) and major shipping lines have held the cocoa freight negotiation conference in Accra for the 2020/2021 crop season.
The cocoa freight negotiation…
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To Understand Child Labor, We Need To Understand Everyone’s Labor
In 2010, the chocolate industry set a 10-year goal of reducing the worst forms of child labor in cocoa farming by 70%.
As the upcoming U.S. Department of Labor report on child labor in West Africa will make clear, this target will not be…
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Ghana Sets Cocoa Producer Price For 2020/21 Season At GHS660
The president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has announced the new cocoa producer price for the 2020/21 season as GHS10,560 per tonne translating to GHS660 per bag.
“Nananom, beginning 1st October 2020, I am happy to announce the…
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Civil Society Coalition Hails COCOBOD For Bold Implementation of LID
The Ghana Civil Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has commended the Ghana Cocoa Board for its bold initiative of implementing the $400 Living Income Differential (LID) aimed at improving farmers' standard of living.
In a press release…
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Ghana Set To Announce New Cocoa Producer Price
The president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is set to announce the new cocoa producer price for the 2020/21 season on Thursday 24th September 2020.
The producer price is the price at which the country's cocoa sector regulator -…
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