Ghana Cocoa Board

Ghana risks losing its major foreign exchange earner cocoa, due to a combination of factors such as illegal mining, accumulated losses and major developments by some advanced countries to aggressively grow and export the crop. The Ghana…
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Personnel of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) last Sunday night intercepted a heavy-duty truck loaded with 200 maxi bags of cocoa beans at Taviefe, near Ho, speeding towards Togo. The Mercedes Benz truck, BA 265…
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"Cocoa farming is very hard work but only rewards you with poverty," 32-year-old cocoa farmer, Uriah Nkrumah declared with vigour. Nkrumah was explaining the reason many of Ghana's youth are abandoning the once esteemed occupation of…
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Ghana has suspended its free cocoa spraying programme at Elubo, a cocoa community on the border with Cote d'Ivoire over rampant smuggling. The country's cocoa sector supervisory agency, Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), provides free cocoa…
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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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Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen-Aidoo, has reiterated his call on the European Union (EU) to reconsider the element of cocoa pricing in its Due Diligence legislation. According to him, the legislation in its…
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Ghana Cocoa Board’s Anti-smuggling Task Force has in collaboration with the security agencies intercepted over 1,500 bags of cocoa being smuggled to neighbouring countries. According to the Director of Special Services at COCOBOD,…
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We are sharing here comprehensive data on cocoa production in Ghana dating back to the 1947/48 crop season. Beyond capturing the annual national production output figures, this data also presents a rare insight into the regional…
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Ghana Cocoa Board has inaugurated an 8-member committee to spearhead efforts to boost local consumption of chocolate and cocoa products. The move falls in line with long-term plans to build local capacity in value addition to target the…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in collaboration with World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has shared a variety of chocolate products with some Cocoa Farmer Cooperatives in various cocoa-growing Regions as part of this year’s National Chocolate Day…
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