Knowing Your Cocoa and Its Quality Parametres: Free Fatty Acids
Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is a pale-yellow, edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean. It is used to make chocolate, as well as some ointments, toiletries, and pharmaceuticals.
Cocoa butter has a cocoa flavour and…
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Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Rolls out Comprehensive Programme to Improve Farmers’ Wellbeing
Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Limited, a subsidiary of Barry Callebaut (BC), the global chocolate manufacturer, has launched an ambitious project that is improving the lives of cocoa farmers.
Through a variety of strategic partnerships, the company…
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Jomoro Municipal Assembly to Distribute 700,000 Cocoa Seedlings to Farmers
Cocoa farmers in Jomoro Municipality of Western Region are to benefit from the government's flagship programme, Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD).
The Municipal Assembly has promised to distribute seven hundred thousand…
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Meet the Two Young University of Ghana Graduates Producing Chocolate
Two young graduates of the University of Ghana have set up a cocoa processing factory in Anyinam in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region.
The two young men, Kwabena Opoku Amoah and Ernest Agyekum Amponsah, who graduated from the…
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Don’t Leave out Cocoa Farmers in Decision-making – WCFO
Nana Abraham Adusei, President of the Ghana Best Farmers' Association, has said there is a need for policymakers in the cocoa industry, to actively involve cocoa farmers in all decision-making processes.
"Cocoa farmers who are the key…
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Cocoa Demand Outstrips Supply Two Months into New Season
Two months into the 2019/2020 cocoa crop season, demand continues to expand exponentially reflecting a steady growth of cocoa processing in Asia and Oceania as well as cocoa-producing countries themselves.
Data from the International Cocoa…
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ECOM Ghana Celebrates – Ernest Sarkodie – National Best Cocoa Farmer
Ecom Ghana, a long-term trade partner to Ghana Cocoa Board, is celebrating a client, Ernest Sarkodie, for winning the 2019 National Best Cocoa Farmer award during the Farmers’ Day celebration held in the Volta Region.
In a press release,…
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IMANI Report on Cocoa Sector ‘Bogus’ – COCOSHE
The Ghana Cocoa, Coffee and Sheanut Association (COCOSHE) has raised serious concern with the findings of a survey conducted by IMANI Africa in Ghana’s cocoa sector.
The group said “… we find the ideas being perpetuated by Imani Africa,…
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Former Ghana President Kufuor Wins 2019 District Best Farmer
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been awarded as the 2019 best farmer of the Atwima Nwabiagya North District in the Ashanti Region.
The former President who is into both livestock and crop production has several hectares of farms,…
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We Have Zero Tolerance for Forced Labor in Cocoa Supply Chain – WCF President
This week marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery — a powerful reminder that slavery is not a thing of the past.
The International Labour Organization estimated that some 40 million people were victims of modern slavery…
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