COCOA POST - The Voice of Cocoa

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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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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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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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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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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