value addition

The Cocoa Value Addition Artisans Association of Ghana (COVAAAGH) has commended the Government of Ghana's upcoming policy to provide cocoa beans to indigenous value addition and small-scale chocolate manufacturing enterprises. According…
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A Swiss-Ghanaian startup, Koa, has introduced its first ready-to-drink cocoa fruit juice - Koa Natural - onto the Ghana and West African markets. The product, called Koa Natural, is an all-natural juice produced from the white, fleshy…
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Ghana will cut back 30% of cocoa exports to Europe and America onto emerging markets in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia in line with a 5-year market diversification strategy, a source has hinted to Cocoa Post. The plan seeks…
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With 70% of the world’s cocoa coming from West Africa, it comes as a surprise that less than 1% of world chocolate is produced at the origin. This gives cocoa producers, especially smallholder farmers, only a meagre share in the…
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The Cocoa Value Addition Artisans Association of Ghana (COVAAAGH) is set to showcase an innovative Ghana made artisanal cocoa products line at the 13th World Trade Promotion Organizations - WTPO Conference and Awards in Accra, Ghana.…
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Swiss-Ghanaian start-up Koa has secured $10 million in growth capital to accelerate its disruptive upcycling business around the cocoa fruit. A press release copied to Cocoa Post stated that the investment will allow the company to scale…
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A cocoa value chain analyst, Eliseus Opoku-Boamah, says the time is ripe for a concerted national campaign to demystify the idea that chocolate is a luxury product. He has, therefore, called for an intensification of the cocoa…
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Gablin Foods Limited, a chocolate factory in Accra, as part of its corporate social responsibility and in support of the Ghana Chocolate Week donated eight cartons of its 350g Instant Milk Chocolate products to the Akropong School for the…
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The Advisory and Awarding Board of Ghana Cocoa Awards chaired by Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, the Vice-Chancellor of the Ghana Communication Technology University, wishes to congratulate all finalists and honourees at the 2021 Edition,…
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In the year 2020, Ghana and Ivory Coast leveraged their cocoa production dominance to capture some extra value; that is, the Living Income Differential (LID) levy that granted cocoa farmers $400 extra income for a metric ton of cocoa beans…
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