COCOBOD Dialogues with Chainsaw Contractors as Cocoa Farm Rehab Programme Takes off
Dr. Emmanuel Nii Tackie-Otoo, Acting Executive Director of Cocoa Health and Extension Division (CHED) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has stated that his outfit is embarking on massive rehabilitation of diseased and unproductive cocoa farms…
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Female Cocoa Farmers Paid As Little as 23p Per Day
Female cocoa farmers are averagely is paid as little as 23p a day, highlighting a gender pay gap in the global chocolate industry, according to Fairtrade.
That figure is well below the extreme global poverty line of £1.40 a day, and…
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Ghana Police Retrieve Fake Cocoa Insecticides from Market
The Goaso Police Division in Ahafo Region in a joint operation with the managers of New Okaff Industries Limited have retrieved gallons of fake cocoa insecticide called AF Confidence No.1 in some parts of the region to prevent hazard it…
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Ghana’s Flagship Cocoa Processor CPC Set for West Africa Expansion
Management of the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has said the company has acquired the necessary certification to enable it to enter other markets in the sub-region.
Instructively, CPC has noted that the recent access and receipt of a…
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Meet Yaa Peprah Amekudzi – The Woman Spearheading Mondelez Cocoa Life in Ghana
Yaw Nkansah took over three acres of the cocoa plantation when his father died five years ago.
He was 25 and a junior high school leaver. Now 30, he has the frame and looks of a man resigned to a hard life.
He hates and loves in equal…
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MoFA Advises Cashew Farmers to be Minded by Int’l Market Trends in Pricing Commodity
The Director of Crop Services at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Seth Osei-Akoto, has asked Cashew farmers in the country to consider international market trends in the industry before they fix their prices.
Pricing of Ghana’s cashew…
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Ghana’s Cocoa Output Hit Hard by Dry, Hot Winds
Overly dry and hot winds in West Africa are damaging prospects for cocoa output for the second year in Ghana, the world's second-largest producer, sources told Reuters News Agency.
Cocoa futures on Intercontinental Exchange are near their…
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Ghana’s $230-Million Cocoa Farm Rehabilitation Programme Takes Off
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has begun its cocoa farm rehabilitation programme to cut down and replant diseased and over-aged cocoa farms across the country.
This farm rehabilitation programme forms part of strategic and long term…
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Let’s Promote Export of Cocoa Products under AfCFTA – AGI
The Association of Ghana Industries(AGI) is to collaborate with the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) to train young entrepreneurs in the manufacturing of chocolate, cocoa byproducts and other research products developed by CRIG to…
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Knowing Your Cocoa and Its Quality Parameters: The pH Factor
Whether a liquid is acidic, basic, or neutral is measured by a quantity called pH. pH is a measure of how much hydrogen, in an ionic form, is in a solution.
pH measurements are put on a scale from 1-14, with 1 being the most acidic and…
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