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...
Cocobod has already received around $1.6 billion worth of bids in an oversubscribed loan syndication aimed at financing purchases of the 2017/18 crop. The world’s second-largest cocoa producer...
In spite of the falling cocoa prices on the international market, government has assured farmers that it has no intention to reduce the producer price. In October last year, the Ghana Cocoa Board...
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 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...
The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has tasked the staff of the Board to work hard to change the bad image the board has gained in the recent past. Mr....
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...
The Ghana Cocoa Board said the purchase of the 2016/2017 Main Crop Cocoa Season would cease at the close of business on Thursday, May 18, 2017. This was in a statement issued by the Chief Executive...
The Western Regional Minister, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has said that even though the Western Region produces over 50 percent of the country’s natural resources, the level of development the region has...
A debt stock of about $100 million is crippling the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) located at Tema. West Africa’s largest local processor, CPC, which has been listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange...
The Western Regional Minister, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has said that even though the Western Region produces over 50 percent of the country’s natural resources, the level of development the region has...
The Chiefs and people of Akwapim Mampong in the Akwapim South District of the Eastern Region are threatening to cut down cocoa trees in the town and go into illegal mining, popularly known as...
The Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Carlos Ahenkorah has emphasised government’s commitment to boost the capacity of existing companies in the country to ensure long term growth and the...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Ghana (ICU), has joined the fight against illegal mining currently ongoing in the country popularly referred to as galamsey. According to the union, the...
A cocoa farmer at Goka in the Jaman North District of the Brong-Ahafo Region has pledged to support the free Senior High School (SHS) policy with five bags of cocoa every year. The 70-year-old...
A cocoa farmer at Goka in the Jaman North District of the Brong-Ahafo Region has pledged to support the free Senior High School (SHS) policy with five bags of cocoa every year. The 70-year-old...
The regulator of cocoa sector in Ghana, Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), is to undertake a rehabilitation of cocoa farms in the country. According to Cocobod, all cocoa trees over 30 years on about 50,000...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has launched a project to treat and rehabilitate some 10,000 hectares of diseased and overage cocoa farms in the Western North and Eastern regions this year. The...
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has predicted a further drop in revenue from cocoa for this year. This also comes after the ten percent drop in revenue from cocoa exports between...
President Akufo-Addo has charged the newly sworn in Board of Directors of the Cocoa Marketing Company to work tirelessly to lift Ghana’s Cocoa production to 1 million tonnes per annum. Speaking...
