Illegal mining

Ghana Cocoa Board has announced a 45 percent increment in the producer price of cocoa for the 2024/25 season. This raises the farmgate price from GHS2,070 to GHS3,000 per 64-kilo bag of cocoa beans and GHS48,000 per metric tonne. "We…
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More than 4,300 hectares of cocoa farms in the Nkawie Cocoa District of the Ashanti Region are at risk of destruction through illegal gold mining activities. Ebenezer Agyen, the Ashanti Regional Manager of Ghana Cocoa Board's extension…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana have warned that the country could lose more productive cocoa farms to illegal mining if cocoa prices remain unchanged. This alarm by cocoa farmers comes ahead of this year's Cocoa Day (October 1), which marks the…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana risk impoverishment if urgent steps are not taken by the government to halt threats posed by illegal mining activities that are gradually destroying cocoa farms. According to a new Cocobod study, about 11,000…
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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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More than 5,000 hectares of cocoa farmlands in the Western North Region have been destroyed by illegal mining activities (galamsey). This was disclosed by the Deputy Chief Executive in-Charge of Agronomy and Quality Control at the Ghana…
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Some lead cocoa farmers and opinion leaders from Asunafo-Abomosu, a cocoa farming community in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region have petitioned the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, to…
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The President of New Juaben Cooperative Cocoa Farmers Union, Mr Thomas Adjei, has said Ghana risks losing her spot as the second largest cocoa producer country in the world due to illegal mining. According to him, the indiscriminate sale…
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