COCOA POST - The Voice of Cocoa

Ghana's Cocobod has borrowed between $150 million and $200 million from cocoa traders to finance bean purchases since the 2023/24 season opened, due to a delay in securing a bank loan, the regulator's public affairs manager said on Tuesday.…
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Afarinick Company Limited, Ghana's leading farm and forest management organisation, has announced the appointment of Dr. Solomon Arhin as Deputy Managing Director. Dr. Arhin will deputise the Managing Director, Eliseus Opoku-Boamah, to…
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A day’s workshop has been organised in Kumasi, Ghana, by the Rainforest Alliance, an international non-profit organisation, for its partners and sustainability managers to introduce them to the new 2030 strategy of the organisation. The…
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Esther Nyarko, a resident of Dadieso in the Suaman District of Ghana's Western North Region, has her life back on track thanks to an employment opportunity she grabbed in the ongoing cocoa rehabilitation programme. Nyarko, 28, faced an…
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Civil society organisations and farmer groups are calling on European lawmakers to ensure the right to a living income and fair purchasing practices are enshrined in the Union's due diligence regulation (EUDR). The advocacy group says it…
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Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator has said it is struggling to sell cocoa export contracts for the 2024/25 season with multinational cocoa buying companies demanding lower prices, contrary to current market prices occasioned by the prevailing…
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The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) estimates a global cocoa supply deficit of around 100,000 tonnes for the just-ended 2022/23 season. According to the ICCO, contrary to market expectations for a balanced supply…
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Ghana will have $330 million less funds to purchase its 2023/24 cocoa crop as compared to the last season. Officials had projected to secure $1.2 billion in the annual roadshow to raise a syndicated credit facility for purchasing cocoa…
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Stakeholders in the cocoa value chain believe that highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) pose grave dangers to cocoa farmers, their families and communities in Ghana and across West Africa. In Ghana, pesticides are used by most farmers to…
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The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) has celebrated its 50th anniversary at a ceremony held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to mark half a century of commitment to sustainable growth in the cocoa sector and a living income for cocoa…
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