2018 Best Cocoa Farmer Adjudged Ghana’s 2019 Overall National Best Farmer
Mr Charles Gyamfi, a 58-year-old farmer from the Tano North District of the Ahafo Region, has been crowned the 2019 National Best Farmer in Ghana.
The 1st runner-up was Abdulai Atiku Seidu from the Upper West Region and the 2nd runner-up…
Read More...
Read More...
COCOBOD Urged to Train Cocoa Farmers on Productivity Enhancement
The District Chief Executive for Upper Denkyira West District in the Central Region, Agyeman Asiedu, has made an appeal to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to train cocoa farmers to undertake pruning and hand pollination on their own, to…
Read More...
Read More...
Cargill Injects $113 Million To Expand Processing In Ivory Coast and Ghana
Global food corporation - Cargill - says it is injecting more than US$113 million into expanding its cocoa processing sites in Ivory Coast and Ghana.
According to Cargill, an American cocoa processing multinational, $100 million out of…
Read More...
Read More...
‘Giving Away Cocoa Farms will Affect Road Plans’ – Joseph Boahen Aidoo
Giving up cocoa farms to galamsey operators for their mining activities will negatively affect the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) capacity to continue its development projects in cocoa farming communities, says the Chief Executive of…
Read More...
Read More...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Cargill Targets 30% Cut
Cargill Inc. has renewed its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its entire supply chain – from farm fields to fast food kitchens – by 30% per ton of product in the next decade.
The commitment follows a contentious summer…
Read More...
Read More...
COCOBOD Cautions Against Payment of Spot Premiums to Farmers
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has warned of severe sanctions against cocoa Licenced Buying Companies (LBCs) in the country engaged in the payment of spot premiums, describing it as unethical.
According to the regulator, some LBCs are…
Read More...
Read More...
Niche Cocoa Bags Five Awards at 2019 Ghana Cocoa Awards
Niche Cocoa Industry Limited, a Ghanaian-owned cocoa processing company, swept a record five (5) awards at the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards held in Accra.
The company won the Cocoa processing Company of the year (Tertiary), Processing Company…
Read More...
Read More...
Ghana’s Cocobod Chief Boahen Aidoo, Ivory Coast’s Brahima Kone Share top Cocoa Award
Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, and his Ivorian counterpart Yves Brahima Kone have jointly been honoured with the "Cocoa Farmer Income Sustainability Honorary Award" at the historic first edition of the Ghana…
Read More...
Read More...
Two Professors Honoured at 2019 Ghana Cocoa Awards
Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, President of the Ghana Technology University College and Professor Frederick Addai, former Head of Anatomy of the University of Ghana Medical School, have been honored for their contribution to the cocoa…
Read More...
Read More...
ECOM Ghana Subsidiaries Kiteko and Crop Doctor Win Big at Ghana Cocoa Awards
ECOM Ghana, a leading global commodity merchant and sustainable supply chain management company picked two awards at the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards.
Two subsidiaries of the company, Kiteko Ghana Ltd was adjudged the Best Haulage Company…
Read More...
Read More...