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...
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...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has replied the Minority in Parliament saying that the Cocoa Stabilization Fund, was not set up to ensure an increase the producer price after a fall in world market...
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...
The Minority in Parliament is challenging the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Aidoo, to make public funds accrued so far under the Cocoa Stabilisation Fund. The...
The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of offering cocoa farmers a terrible deal with its decision not increase the cocoa producer price due to a fall in world market prices. The minority...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has raised alarm over the destruction caused by activities of illegal gold and diamond miners to the vast cocoa...
The Wassa East District in the Western Region has so far received and distributed a total of 156 litres of three different chemicals to farmers to help fight the infestation of Fall Army worms in the...
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding efforts to tackle climate change effects on cocoa production. The...
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...
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding efforts to tackle climate change effects on cocoa production. The...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has launched the artificial hand pollination project aimed at increasing cocoa yields in the country. The project, to be being carried out in all the six cocoa growing...
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...
A Hand Pollination Piloting Program has been launched by the Ghana Cocoa Board to boost production of cocoa to 1million tonnes by 2020. According to the Board Chairman of COCOBOD, Mr. Joseph Boahen...
The deputy minister of agriculture William Agyapong Quaittoo has hinted of government’s plan to agree with neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire on fixing cocoa price at the international market. The move...
Board Chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang says government will embark on a mass spraying exercise of cocoa farms across the country in June this year (2017). According to Mr....
A World Bank report says the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has failed in stabilising farm gate prices at levels that permit farmers to earn an adequate return on their lands, labour and capital. The...
