‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Yara Ghana wins Fertiliser Agro Input of the Year at maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards
Yara Ghana Limited, a leading name in fertilizer dealership in Ghana, has won the Agro Input of the Year (fertilizer) at the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards held in Accra.
The company’s input package for cocoa which is the Asaase Wura and…
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Ghana Cocoa Awards 2019: President Kufuor to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor is to receive the ECOM Ghana Cocoa Lifetime Achievement Award at the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards Gala Night, which comes off 22nd November 2019 at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra.
The special…
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COCOBOD Chief in Race for Ghana Cocoa Awards’ Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Personality 2019
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo and two others have been shortlisted to receive the ultimate award in the maiden Ghana Cocoa Awards instituted to celebrate outstanding achievement in the cocoa sector.
Mr Aidoo…
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