COCOBOD Rallies Management Staff to Turn Around Fortunes
The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has called on managers and directors of the Board to work innovatively to change the fortunes of the cocoa industry.
Mr Boahen Aidoo made the call when he briefed…
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Ghana Cocoa Gets No Buyers on First Market Appearance Since $400 Premium
The world’s second-largest cocoa producer offered to sell beans for the first time since introducing a surcharge, and found no buyers, according to people familiar with the matter.
Ghana’s Cocoa Marketing Company, responsible for selling…
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1,200 Women Trained in Ghana’s Shea Industry Value Chain
The Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) has trained 1,200 women in the shea value chain industry, with best practices in shea picking.
This is part of the first phase of the Shea Empowerment Initiative (SEI) in the northern…
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Nestlé Announces It’s First Sugar-Free Chocolate
Nestlé has announced it has created a unique chocolate made entirely from the cocoa fruit, using the beans and pulp as the only ingredients and therefore not adding any refined sugar.
Nestlé plans to introduce the first product in Japan…
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Yayra Glover Advocates Organic Cocoa Farming In Ghana
Mr Yayrator Glover, Chief Executive Officer of Yayra Glover Ghana Limited, an organic cocoa production company, has advocated for investments in organically cultivated cocoa to help the nation reclaim its place as the world's highest…
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Cocoa Farming Input To Be Provided Through Farmer Cooperatives – COCOBOD
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has adopted a new policy of providing support services, farming products and inputs to cocoa farmers through their registered cooperatives to ensure far more efficient and timely delivery to all cocoa farmer…
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Dapaah Chocolates Founder Speaks on Ghana & Ivory Coast Floor Price
A cocoa farmer and founder of Dapaah Chocolates based in London, United Kingdom, Raphael Dapaah, has shared his thoughts on the new cocoa floor price spearheaded by West African neighbours, Ghana and Ivory Coast.
The Dapaah Chocolates…
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The BEST Homemade Hot Chocolate
How to Make the BEST Homemade Hot Chocolate.
This method gives you a creamy, rich, smooth hot chocolate drink! Made with milk, a little vanilla, chopped chocolate, and a touch of whipped cream.
Get the recipe here:…
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Motorised Slashers To Accelerate Ghana’s Cocoa Farm Mechanisation
The Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, hinted that from October 2019 cocoa farmers would be introduced to motorised slashers to reduce the use of hoes and cutlasses in farm maintenance.
He insisted, however, that such support…
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COCOBOD Launches Cocoa Farmer Cooperatives to Advance Productivity and Sustainability
Cocoa farmer groups or associations have become a mobilisation point for farmers who unite to advance the course of their businesses.
Cocoa farmer cooperatives born by friendship but mostly expand to comprise farmers in the same catchment…
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