Cocoa Is A Super Food, Let’s Promote Its Consumption – COCOBOD Chief
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board ( COCOBOD) Hon Joseph Boahen Aidoo has extolled Cocoa as a 'Super Food' and called on Ghanaians to consume it in all forms regularly.
'Never in the history of the world has nature blessed a single…
Read More...
Read More...
Chocolate Day 2020: Over 600 Cocoa Farmers Receive Free Health Screening and Cocoa Products
Inhabitants of Anum Apapamu, a cocoa farming community near Suhum in the Eastern Region have benefitted from free cocoa drinks and medical screening organized by Ghana Cocoa Board in collaboration with the Cocoa Processing Company ahead of…
Read More...
Read More...
Licensed Cocoa Buyer Confirms Reports of Cheating with Adjusted Scales
A licensed cocoa buyer has corroborated reports that farmers are being cheated at the point of sale of cocoa beans to the Licensed Buying Companies (LBC).
According to Abdul Razak Adamu, however, the LBCs are not responsible for this…
Read More...
Read More...
Ghana Cocoa Board Directs The Use Of Electronic Weighing Scales From October 2020
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has directed all licensed buying companies (LBCs) to adopt the use of electronic weighing scales in the purchase of cocoa beans from cocoa farmers, effective October 2020.
The rationale, according to the…
Read More...
Read More...
Chocoa Festival Returns to Amsterdam in its Eighth Edition
The 8th edition of the Netherlands-based chocolate festival, Chocoa, returns between 19-23 February 2020 in Amsterdam.
Covering major issues including industry sustainability, it is set to bring together stakeholders from the entire…
Read More...
Read More...
Ghana and Ivory Coast To Pay LID To Cocoa Farmers From October
The Managing Director of Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company, Vincent Okyere Akomeah has disclosed Ghana and Ivory Coast will from October 1 this year begin paying the Living Income Differential (LID) to cocoa farmers.
The LID an amount of…
Read More...
Read More...
Ghana’s Free Cocoa Farm Pruning Programme Begins
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will from this week begin a 100 percent pruning of all cocoa farms across the country at no cost to farmers.
This was revealed during a National Stakeholder Dialogue on cocoa farmgate pricing and income of cocoa…
Read More...
Read More...
Farmers Advised to Work with Extension Officers to Maintain Quality of Cocoa Beans
Nana Karikari Addo, Managing Director of the Quality Control Company of COCOBOD, has asked cocoa farmers to make maximum use of extension officers and always seek technical advice in the use and application of chemicals in their farms.…
Read More...
Read More...
Ghana Cocoa Export Inches up Marginally
The Ghana COCOBOD has released figures which show that the country has exported cocoa beans as of January 2020 to the tune of 596,000 tonnes.
This is an increase in the export of cocoa beans recorded in the previous season which stood at…
Read More...
Read More...
Harnessing the Socio-Economic Benefits of Children Helping on Cocoa Farms
Society generally tags incidences of children helping on cocoa farms as “cocoa child labour”. A practice that is cruel, but rampant in cocoa. Several interventions on a global scale aim to reduce and eventually eradicate the practice.…
Read More...
Read More...