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Rainforest Alliance, a non-governmental organisation, and its partners International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) and Solidaridad Ghana, with funding from NORAD, have supported beneficiaries resident in the following seven Ghanaian cocoa…
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The International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO) estimates a global cocoa supply deficit of around 100,000 tonnes for the just-ended 2022/23 season. According to the ICCO, contrary to market expectations for a balanced supply…
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Stakeholders in the cocoa value chain believe that highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) pose grave dangers to cocoa farmers, their families and communities in Ghana and across West Africa. In Ghana, pesticides are used by most farmers to…
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A visit today to Dadieso, the capital of the Suaman District, in the Western North Region of Ghana, reveals a bustling community with tarred streets awash with people and Pragya tricycle taxis. But only two years back, this community,…
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The Bodoma Old Ladies Cocoa Farmers’ Cooperative, a group instituted to empower women through knowledge sharing and support to create economic opportunities and positive change has been inaugurated at Bodoma, a cocoa community in the Bekwai…
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Ivory Coast cocoa production in the upcoming 2023/24 crop season is projected to drop by as much as 20% compared to recent years due to poor weather, putting further upward pressure on prices, Reuters reported on Monday. Ivory Coast is…
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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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Gablin Foods Limited, producer of origin cocoa products from Ghana, has landed supply deals with key distributors in the Chinese fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. When the contracts are finally firmed up by the parties, Gablin…
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Koa, a Ghanaian-Swiss startup, has successfully commissioned into operation Africa's largest cocoa fruit processing factory in Akim Achiase, Ghana. The facility raised at the cost of $10 million is the company's second in the…
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