COCOA POST - The Voice of Cocoa

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has denied media reports that it plans to increase the producer price paid to cocoa farmers in the 2019/20 cocoa season to GH¢8,000 per tonne. It said beyond the reports being untrue, they were premature as…
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Citizen Watch, a leading think tank group, is calling on President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to scale up the farmgate price of cocoa beans to GH¢9,000 per tonne from the current GH¢8000. The think tank says the increase will save the…
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Farmers in the top two cocoa growers are upbeat about the next harvest after heavy rains in recent weeks helped support crop development. It’s an important time of the year for farmers in Ivory Coast and Ghana—which together account for…
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The next meeting of the International Cocoa Organization is to consider wide-ranging proposals for change. Michel Arrion, the International Cocoa Organization’s (ICCO’s) Executive Director, will use the 100th Regular Session of the…
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The International Cocoa Organisation plays a significant role in some of the sector’s key markets. It is now two years since the International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) headquarters moved from London to Abidjan, in Ivory Coast in July…
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Ivory Coast cocoa grinders have processed 455,000 tonnes of beans since the start of the season in October to the end of July, data from exporters’ association GEPEX showed on Friday. This is up 8% from 421,000 tonnes during same period…
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Over 4200 cocoa farmers under Nestle's Cocoa Plan program in Ghana are set to benefit from a total GHC1,218,000 (US$232,000) in cocoa premium payments. Premiums are bonuses farmers receive in addition to the producer price for upholding…
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Ivory Coast’s first lady Dominique Ouattara met a delegation of U.S. senators on Monday to appeal their call for an embargo on Ivorian cocoa over the alleged use of child labour. In July, Senators Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Ron Wyden of…
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