Ghana

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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The Ladies Club of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has joined staff and patient of the Princess Marie Louise Hospital to celebrate the 2020 edition of the National Chocolate Day at the hospital premises in Accra. The gesture by COCOBOD ladies…
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Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority is urging the hospitality industry in Ghana to consume locally produced cocoa products. According to Akwasi Agyeman, the move is necessary to boost the natural resources export and…
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The Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Hon. Joseph Boahen Aidoo has charged the staff of the cocoa company to become distinguished ambassadors of the "Super Food" and promote its consumption at all times. “We are…
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The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board ( COCOBOD) Hon Joseph Boahen Aidoo has extolled Cocoa as a 'Super Food' and called on Ghanaians to consume it in all forms regularly. 'Never in the history of the world has nature blessed a single…
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