Chocolate industry

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Ghana Cocoa Board Calls For Remedy For Falling Cocoa Prices

Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has called for measures to remedy the...

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Is Farming In Ghana Punishment?

It is predictable that if you asked a lower primary kid to draw a hard worker; he or she would draw a farmer.  Ask...

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Stabilization Fund Not Meant For Increasing Producer Price

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has replied the Minority in Parliament saying that the Cocoa Stabilization Fund, was...

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Cocobod Replies Minority

Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has dismissed suggestions by the Minority in Parliament that government is unfairly...

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COCOBOD Debunks Minority Claims On Cocoa Price

COCOBOD has debunked assertions by the Minority group in Parliament that government is offering cocoa producers a...

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Minority Dares Cocobod CEO To Come Public On Stabilisation Fund

The Minority in Parliament is challenging the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Joseph Aidoo,...

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NPP Gov’t Is Cheating Cocoa Farmers

The Minority in Parliament is accusing government of offering cocoa farmers a terrible deal with its decision not...

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Stop Destroying Cocoa Farms For Gold

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has raised alarm over the...

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Wassa East District Finds Solutions To Fighting Fall Army Worms

The Wassa East District in the Western Region has so far received and distributed a total of 156 litres of three...

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Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Thwart Gov’t’s ‘Tree On the Farm’ Initiative

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms,...

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COCOBOD Pledges To Contribute Its Quota To Reversing Deforestation

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBD) on Thursday gave the assurance that it would contribute its quota towards reversing the...

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Ghana To Buy Shares In Cadbury, Nestle and Other International Food Companies

The Ghana government is considering buying shares in international food companies that process cocoa aimed at...

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Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Heighten Risk of Climate Change As They Cut Down Trees On Farms

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms,...

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Cocobod Launches Artificial Pollination Project To Increase Yields

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has launched the artificial hand pollination project aimed at increasing cocoa yields...

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Cocoa Horizon Programme For Sustainable Cocoa Production

The Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying Limited, a subsidiary of Barry Callebaut Group has embarked on a programme called “Cocoa...

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COCOBOD Launches Artificial Pollination Programme

A Hand Pollination Piloting Program has been launched by the Ghana Cocoa Board to boost production of cocoa to 1million...

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Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire To Fix Cocoa Price Index – Deputy Minister Hints

The deputy minister of agriculture William Agyapong Quaittoo has hinted of government’s plan to agree with...

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COCOBOD To Begin Mass Spraying of Cocoa Farms In July 2017

Board Chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board, Hackman Owusu-Agyemang says government will embark on a mass spraying exercise...

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COCOBOD Failed Farmers

A World Bank report says the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has failed in stabilising farm gate prices at levels that...