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‘Giving Away Cocoa Farms will Affect Road Plans’ – Joseph Boahen Aidoo

Writer Dec 4, 2019 0

Giving up cocoa farms to galamsey operators for their mining activities will negatively affect the Ghana Cocoa Board’s (COCOBOD) capacity to continue its development projects in cocoa farming communities, says the Chief Executive of…
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Solidaridad Offers 1-Year Affiliation for Ghana Cocoa Awards Best Journalist in Cocoa Reporting

Writer Oct 25, 2019 0

International non-governmental development organisation, Solidaridad West Africa, is offering 1-year affiliation for the winner of Best Journalist in Cocoa Reporting Award at the upcoming Ghana Cocoa Awards 2019 (GCA). "The winner would be…
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Ghana Cocoa Board to Raise $1.3 Billion in Syndicated Loans

Writer Jul 30, 2019 0

Ghana Cocoa Board will raise $1.3 billion in syndicated loans for its operations in the 2019/2020 season, the Minister of Finance Mr Ken Ofori-Atta announced in Parliament on Monday. In addition to the annual syndicated loan of US$ 1.3…
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Bitter Chocolate: Deforestation in the Ivory Coast

Writer Jul 29, 2019 0

The last piece of chocolate you ate likely had its roots in West Africa, where two-thirds of cocoa beans are produced. Respectively, Ghana and the Ivory Coast account for roughly 19 and 45 percent of this production, according to data from…
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Construction Begins on New Barry Callebaut Chocolate Factory in India

Writer Jul 26, 2019 0

The Barry Callebaut Group has delivered groundbreaking for construction of a new chocolate and compound manufacturing facility in Baramati, serving the fast-growing Indian confectionery market and global food groups. Located around 250km…
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150,000 Cocoa Seedlings Distributed to Farmers in Ashanti Region

Writer Jul 25, 2019 0

The Asante-Akim South Municipal Assembly of Ghana's Ashanti Region has distributed 150,000 hybrid cocoa seedlings to farmers in its bid to increase yield and improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers in the Municipality. The exercise, which…
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Your 5-Minute Guide to Sustainable Cocoa

Writer Jul 23, 2019 0

Did you ever wonder who grows the cocoa beans used to make your chocolate? Six million farmers around the world bring you this sweet crop. It was a sacred Aztec beverage. Its melting point, just below body temperature, seems to…
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Cocoa and Gunshots: The struggle to Save a Threatened Forest in Nigeria

Writer Jul 22, 2019 0

Nigeria’s Omo Forest Reserve provides important habitat for animals such as forest elephants, as well as drinking water for the city of Lagos. But the reserve has been severely deforested, losing more than 7 percent of its tree cover…
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Ghana-Ivory Coast $400 Living Income Differential in Cocoa Price Not a Surcharge – COCOBOD…

Writer Jul 22, 2019 0

The Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has assured the $400 Living Income Differential introduced jointly with Ivory Coast on cocoa is not a surcharge. "We will like to correct the misrepresentation of the…
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COCOBOD Dismisses Bloomberg’s No Buyer Report as “Prepared Script”

Writer Jul 20, 2019 0

Official spokesperson for Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr. Fiifi Boafo, has rejected a Bloomberg report Friday claiming Ghana Cocoa got no buyers on first market appearance since $400 premium. Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world's largest…
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