COCOA POST

Over 30 award categories are up for grabs as nominations open till 16th October 2020 for the 2nd Ghana Cocoa Awards, an industry scheme that recognises and celebrates excellence. Ghana Cocoa Awards was instituted to shine the limelight…
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A Ghanaian agricultural engineer, Kingsley Ankukumah, has developed a manual pruner to encourage routine cocoa farm pruning for higher yield. According to him, the tool a pruner cum harvester is designed to end the drudgery farmers endure…
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Eliho Ghana Ltd, a new Licensed Buying Company and partner of Touton SA has declared an amount of Gh¢2,160,000 as 2019/2020 loyalty bonus for distribution to its outstanding farmers in the country. Eliho Ghana, in collaboration with…
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Cocoa is one of many unique and common food items that are highly demanded in our present world. Extracted from Theobroma Cacao, the cocoa seeds and butter are used for many purposes with demands increasingly intriguing.…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana will, beginning 1st October 2020, be enrolled on a contributory insurance or pension scheme as stipulated by the law. Section 26 of the Ghana Cocoa Board Law, 1984 (PNDCL 81) enjoined the cocoa regulatory body to…
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International cocoa and chocolate scholar, Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, has been appointed chair of the 3-member Advisory and Awarding Board of Ghana Cocoa Awards, an industry awards scheme. Professor Afoakwa, who is also the…
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Anytime, the topics of low income and worsening livelihood of cocoa farmers are raised in Ghana, people mistakenly assume Ghana to be the cocoa farmer and thus they argue that Ghana needs to add value to its cocoa beans to improve its…
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Through a joint initiative, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have managed to convince chocolate traders and makers to raise the price they pay for cocoa. With Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s top two cocoa producers, as well as Nigeria,…
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Some lead cocoa farmers and opinion leaders from Asunafo-Abomosu, a cocoa farming community in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region have petitioned the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, to…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), the industry regulator, has once again raised a red flag over the misapplication of agrochemicals by farmers, indicating that the wrongful practice poses threats to sustainable cocoa production and productivity.…
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