Ghana

U.S. customs authorities have asked cocoa traders to report where and when they encounter child labor in their supply chains in top grower Ivory Coast, three industry sources said, following calls from American lawmakers to ban some…
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The Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo and his three deputies have donated 50 percent of their salaries for three months and a cash amount of GH₵ 200,000.00 to support the fight against COVID-19 in…
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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has presented a cheque of Ghc200,000 and assorted products worth over GHc1,032,000 to support the COVID-19 Fund set up by the government to mobilize logistics to contain the spread of the pandemic in the…
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Ghana's cocoa sector regulator (COCOBOD) is poised to expand the country's earnings from cocoa through strategic investment in local processing capacity and value addition. Cocobod in November 2019 successfully signed a $600 million Africa…
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Long-term sustainability for the cocoa sector is a major challenge. But rather than relying solely on price premiums, the solution is to think bigger, and admit the industry itself needs serious reform on the ground, argue Peter Stanbury…
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Lindt & Spruengli AG warned that the premium imposed by the world’s largest cocoa growers in West Africa will give chocolate manufacturers little choice but to raise their prices. Ivory Coast and Ghana are charging $400 per metric ton…
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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is optimistic about producing one million tonnes of cocoa for the 2020/2021 cocoa crop season. According to its Chief Executive, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the introduction of the Living Income Differential (LID)…
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Overly dry and hot winds in West Africa are damaging prospects for cocoa output for the second year in Ghana, the world's second-largest producer, sources told Reuters News Agency. Cocoa futures on Intercontinental Exchange are near their…
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