COCOA POST - The Voice of Cocoa

Ghana Cocoa Board may be on the verge of defaulting on its cocoa contracts with some international buyers. The West African nation is reeling under an unprecedented scale of cocoa smuggling to neighbouring countries Togo, Cote d'Ivoire and…
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The Council of the European Union has given its final approval for its Deforestation Regulation aimed at reducing deforestation associated with key EU market imports. The regulation is targeted at cocoa, palm oil, cattle, wood, coffee,…
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The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has announced the appointment of three new officers to its board. They are Christine McGrath, who replaces Peter Boone ex-CEO of Barry Callebaut as the new Chairman, Kojo Amoo-Gottfried and Tejinder Singh…
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A Swiss-Ghanaian startup, Koa, has introduced its first ready-to-drink cocoa fruit juice - Koa Natural - onto the Ghana and West African markets. The product, called Koa Natural, is an all-natural juice produced from the white, fleshy part…
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"Cocoa farming is very hard work but only rewards you with poverty," 32-year-old cocoa farmer, Uriah Nkrumah declared with vigour. Nkrumah was explaining the reason many of Ghana's youth are abandoning the once esteemed occupation of their…
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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is implementing the Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP) in Ghana with the Palm oil value chain actors. The project is funded by the Swiss Government and is aimed at…
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• Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ paltry incomes fell on average by 16 percent since the start of the pandemic —while the confectionary profits of the four biggest public chocolate corporations on average jumped by the exact same rate. • Chocolate…
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Palm oil imports in India slumped by 30% in April to a 14-month record low according to the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA), Reuters has reported. The development is said to have prompted a shift by buyers to rival soft oils…
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Liberia has established its first-ever national cocoa seed garden to provide quality and improved planting materials for smallholder farmers. Until now the unavailability of quality planting material had been a major concern for the West…
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Ghana has suspended its free cocoa spraying programme at Elubo, a cocoa community on the border with Cote d'Ivoire over rampant smuggling. The country's cocoa sector supervisory agency, Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), provides free cocoa…
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