Ghana

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss food processing technology giant Bühler Group to support the country's value addition drive. Bühler Group is a world leader in cocoa processing and chocolate…
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A chocolate processing factory is to be established in Rwanda through collaboration between Ghana and the East African country to boost bilateral trade. Reciprocally, Rwanda will also establish a formulation plant in Ghana for the…
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The Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) has petitioned the sector minister to urgently reform the country's fertilizer subsidy programme over allegations of poor management and corruption. The…
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On the 27th of May 2021, Ghana Investment Promotion Authority (GIPC), organised the GIPC Cocoa Value Chain Investment Meeting with key stakeholders in the sector. As a cocoa farmer’s son with a keen personal and professional interest in…
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Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has described cocopeat technology as the best alternative to the dependence on topsoil for raising cocoa seedlings. Prior to adopting the technology at its nursery sites, the organisation relied on topsoil, a…
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Civil society activists operating within Ghana's cocoa sector have blown the alarm on the continuous destruction of cocoa farmlands and water sources by illegal gold miners. New investigative video footage on the state of water sources…
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I am sure when we heard of China’s first export of 500 Kilograms of cocoa beans to Belgium we cringed asking ourselves, can China produce cocoa beans? Well, for me, I have rather wondered exactly what pride there is in being acclaimed as…
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The ambience of chitchats fills an Accra hotel seminar hall as attendees exchange pleasantries while networking. Others make their way out for the cocoa break. It's the end of the opening session of the COCOBOD AfCFTA Committee's meeting…
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Officials of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and Côte d'Ivoire's Conseil Cafe Cacao (CCC) are locked in a crunch meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, over the implementation of the Living Income Differential (LID) for their cocoa farmers.…
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So, on the 6th of July 2020 and on the 29th of March 2021, I published an article titled “Is Fairtrade Fair to Cocoa Farmers?” in The Cocoa Post, Ghana Talks Business and Business and Financial Times. Fairtrade Africa did the dutiful,…
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