Nana Opanbour Bonsu II, President, Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana has expressed dissatisfaction over the clearing of cocoa trees for the cultivation of rubber in cocoa communities in the...
Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has called for measures to remedy the falling cocoa prices on the world market. In a speech read on his behalf at the...
Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) is in talks with a syndicate of banks to restructure its $20.5 million debt to be payable in five years, Nana Agyenim Boateng, the Managing Director, said on Tuesday....
Minister of Tourism and Creative Arts Catherine Afeku has said plans are far advanced for the establishment of a cocoa factory to honour Tetteh Quarshie for bringing cocoa to Ghana. Speaking at the...
Scores of farmers at the communities within the Ejisu-Juaben municipality in the Ashanti Region have mounted a strong protest against the sale of their farmlands by the paramount chief of Ejisu, Nana...
The Ghana COCOBOD is looking forward to cut down about one hundred million cocoa trees by the 2017/2018 crop season. The trees, mostly diseased ones, are among the 40 percent of total unproductive...
LAST week President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced that Switzerland has agreed to assist Ghana to increase its cocoa production and as well add value to its raw cocoa beans locally....
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has disclosed that his outfit has mapped out a payment plan to compensate all cocoa farmers who will cut down their unproductive cocoa...
Those looking to improve their memory are unlikely to turn to chocolate for help. But a new study backs up previous research that says the sugary treat actually boosts memory and helps keep our...
It is predictable that if you asked a lower primary kid to draw a hard worker; he or she would draw a farmer. Ask them to draw the most important worker; many children would draw a farmer. Ask...
Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has dismissed suggestions by the Minority in Parliament that government is unfairly treating cocoa farmers in the face of a decline in international prices. At a press...
COCOBOD has debunked assertions by the Minority group in Parliament that government is offering cocoa producers a terrible deal by its decision not to increase cocoa producer price due to fall in...
Intelligence gathered by The Finder indicates that staff of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) are demanding salary increment despite a myriad of challenges, including the huge fall in the price of raw...
The standard historical record is that Mr. Tetteh Quarshie, the half-Akan and half-Ga native, if memory serves me accurately, who visited the island of Fernando Po, in present-day Equitorial Guinea,...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBD) on Thursday gave the assurance that it would contribute its quota towards reversing the degradation of the forest cover which currently stood at 3.2 per annum which...
The Ghana government is considering buying shares in international food companies that process cocoa aimed at maximizing the economic benefits the country gets from the production of the crop. Ghana...
Mr Seidu Mahama, Suhum Municipal Best Farmer for two successive years, has called on traditional authorities to assist in educating cocoa farmers on the need to replant farms with the swollen shoot...
The Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Limited, a subsidiary of Barry Callebaut Group has embarked on a programme called “Cocoa Horizon”, to support cocoa farmers for sustainable production. The Cocoa Horizon...
Mr. Joseph Boahene-Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Cocobod, has encouraged Ghanaians to develop a strong taste for cocoa products. He indicated that there were both health and economic...
Mr. Randy Boitey, the Eastern Regional Cocoa Extension Service Officer has said 400,000 hectares of cocoa farms are to be irrigated, this year, under a pilot project, launched by the government to...
