Chocolate

In 2019, Ghana earned $1.85 billion from the export value of raw cocoa beans according to the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database (FAOSTAT) 2021. Meanwhile, the global chocolate industry in 2019 was worth…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss food processing technology giant Bühler Group to support the country's value addition drive. Bühler Group is a world leader in cocoa processing and chocolate…
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An 11-year-old Malaysian boy is touching the lives of the country's cocoa farmers in the Sabah State with his chocolate manufacturing social enterprise. The baby-faced chocolate maker, Armand Idrizam, is the founder of Koko Loko, a…
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A chocolate processing factory is to be established in Rwanda through collaboration between Ghana and the East African country to boost bilateral trade. Reciprocally, Rwanda will also establish a formulation plant in Ghana for the…
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Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator, Conseil Cafe Cacao (CCC), has called out leading chocolate makers for refusal to pay the Living Income Differential (LID), a $400-per-tonne premium. West African neighbours and the world's top two cocoa…
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The US Supreme Court has made a ruling absolving food giants Nestle and Cargill of any wrongdoing in a child slavery suit brought against them by six men from Mali. The apex court's decision effectively reverses a lower-court ruling that…
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On the 27th of May 2021, Ghana Investment Promotion Authority (GIPC), organised the GIPC Cocoa Value Chain Investment Meeting with key stakeholders in the sector. As a cocoa farmer’s son with a keen personal and professional interest in…
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I am sure when we heard of China’s first export of 500 Kilograms of cocoa beans to Belgium we cringed asking ourselves, can China produce cocoa beans? Well, for me, I have rather wondered exactly what pride there is in being acclaimed as…
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The ambience of chitchats fills an Accra hotel seminar hall as attendees exchange pleasantries while networking. Others make their way out for the cocoa break. It's the end of the opening session of the COCOBOD AfCFTA Committee's meeting…
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There is a great opportunity for chocolatiers who process their chocolates at the country of origin to present their products for an award in Paris this May 2021. The AVPA Chocolates Processed at Origin contest will pave way for almost…
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