Farming

The Cocoa Officer for Dormaa Central Municipality has appealed to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and other stakeholders of the cocoa industry to develop appropriate technology for speedy cocoa flower pollination. David Afriyie-Gyebi said…
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Three Ghanaian farmers have had their cocoa beans selected among the top 50 in the world among 223 samples submitted for the 2019 edition of the International Cocoa Awards (ICA). Augustine Blay and Joseph Jongmaatey both of Elubo in 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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Fine single origin chocolate bar brand, Original Beans, has relaunched its bars in new eco-friendly packaging. Each single origin bar artistically displays the animal that lives where the cocoa beans come from. A mountain gorilla from the…
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Ghana Cocoa Board will raise $1.3 billion in syndicated loans for its operations in the 2019/2020 season, the Minister of Finance Mr Ken Ofori-Atta announced in Parliament on Monday. In addition to the annual syndicated loan of US$ 1.3…
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The last piece of chocolate you ate likely had its roots in West Africa, where two-thirds of cocoa beans are produced. Respectively, Ghana and the Ivory Coast account for roughly 19 and 45 percent of this production, according to data from…
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The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) says it has provided Agro Traders Ltd., a Cocoa processing company in Ondo State 50 per cent credit risk guarantee for N2billion (equivalent of over…
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Rainforest Alliance’s Daan de Vries outlines how fourth-generation technologies are being harnessed across Africa, Asia and Latin America, and to make food production more sustainable and avoid deforestation We’re experiencing a digital and…
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