Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme

Ghana is set to roll out the ambitious Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme which has been on the radar since 1984. Section 26 of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Law 1984 (PNDC Law 81) mandates COCOBOD to establish a contributory insurance…
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Cocoa farming has been and continues to be a pivotal economic activity in Ghana which contributes significantly to the country's total foreign exchange earnings. However, the majority of cocoa farmers in Ghana have limited access to…
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Selected journalists from media houses in the Western Region have been trained ahead of an enrolment exercise expected to start in the Region to enrol cocoa farmers on the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme (CFPS). The journalists, who were…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is set to begin the full-scale rollout of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme effective this month, October 2022. The Board Chairman of Cocobod, Peter Mac Manu, disclosed this at the 2022 Cocoa Day celebrations…
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The President of the West Akim Cooperative  Cocoa Farmers (Cocoa Life), Adu Essel Sampson, has called on cocoa farmer cooperatives to make a conscious effort to allocate part of their premium to support community projects as a way of giving…
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Ghana's cocoa regulator, Cocobod, has earmarked one percent of cocoa sold by cocoa farmers as counterpart funding for the country's newly launched Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme. The long-awaited welfare intervention for the Ghanaian cocoa…
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Opanyin Kwabena Nkrumah, 103 years from Adansi Atobiase, volunteered as one of the cocoa farmers who showed up at the early hours on the first day of the Pilot Registration exercise of the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme. After spending…
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The immediate past District Chief Executive (DCE) for Adansi South in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Benjamin Anhwere, has endorsed the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme being implemented by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). The former DCE, who is…
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Pilot registration under the Cocoa Farmers Pension Scheme for a cross-section of Ghanaian cocoa growers has taken off in the Ashanti Region. Some 2,800 volunteer farmers from the New Edubiase District are expected to be captured within the…
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Ghana's cocoa regulator, Cocobod, is set to roll out a pension scheme for cocoa farmers for the first time in the country's history. Thirty-seven years ago, the erstwhile military junta, Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC),…
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