Ghana Civil-society Cocoa Platform

Ghana has announced it will pay a farmgate price of GHS20,943.84 (USD1,821) per tonne and GHS1308.99 per 64kg bag of cocoa beans for the 2023/24 crop season, which officially opened Friday, 8 September 2023. This historic 63.6% price…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana are asking the government for a remarkable increase in the farmgate price of their produce to tackle poverty, cross-border smuggling and illegal mining on cocoa farms. Addressing the media in the Ghanaian capital,…
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Ghana has increased its cocoa producer price from GHS660 to GHS800 per bag for its 2022/23 crop, said Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the Minister of Food and Agriculture in Accra, on Wednesday. The new farmgate price which represents a 21%…
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The Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has called on the government to increase the producer price of cocoa to a minimum of GHS838 per bag. The position of GCCP contained in a statement copied to Cocoa Post comes on the…
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A joint platform of Ghanaian and Ivorian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and cocoa farmers has made a strong call for reforms in the international pricing mechanism for cocoa to guarantee a living income for farmers. The group has…
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