The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) earns a whopping GHC70,000 monthly, according to the new board chairman of the outfit Hackman Owusu-Agyeman. According to the former...
Some cocoa farmers in the country have called on the government to halt the indiscriminate sale of cocoa farms to small – scale miners. According to the farmers, the sale and destruction of cocoa...
Galamsey operations, according to the union, have popped up in some communities Cocoa production may significantly reduce in the country and affect Ghana’s foreign exchange earnings if illegal...
Government has indicated that it is scrapping the free fertilizer distribution policy aimed at aiding Cocoa farmers in the country. This was because the policy had failed to the target farmers,...
Snippets of information gathered by 3news.com have revealed plans by the government to dismiss most of the staff employed at Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) under the previous government from 2013....
The Western Regional Minister-nominee, Dr Kwaku Afriyie, has expressed dissatisfaction with what he described as the undue financial burden placed on cocoa farmers by government. He said the concept...
The Ghana Cocoa Coffee and Shea-nut Farmers Association (GCCSFA) has appealed to the government to bring back the Akuafo Cheque System to protect them from cheating by unscrupulous purchasing clerks....
It is emerging that the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) did not conduct any ‘proper’ interrogation of embattled immediate-past Ghana Cocobod Chief Executive, Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni....
Dr. Stephen Opuni Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, the immediate past Chief Executive of Ghana Cocobod, has been invited by the Economic and Organized Crime...
The Cocoa Industry Workers Union has rejected calls for investigations into the tenure of office of former chief executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr. Stephen Opuni. At a news...
Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer, has put in place a number of interventions and best agronomic practices to help double the output of the crop within ten years. Ghana's cocoa...
President John Mahama says his government has devised a new technology that will get fertilizers directly to cocoa farmers without the use of middle men. This is to bring an end to what is popularly...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has released funds to qualified Licensed Buying Companies (LBC) to purchase cocoa for the 2016/2017 cocoa season. A statement by COCOBOD, and copied to the...
Mr Michael Borboryoe Nartey, Overall Best 2016 Farmer for the Ningo-Prampram District, says the Greater Accra Region would in some few years lose all its farmlands. Mr Nartey, who had been farming...
President of Upper East Regional House of Chiefs Naba Sigri Bewong, who is also a board member of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), has charged government to separate the Shea...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has debunked rumours circulating within the industry, that funds for the purchase of cocoa for the 2016\2017 crop season are unavailable. A statement issued in Accra...
COCOBOD has rejected claims of not releasing sufficient funds to purchase cocoa for the 2016/2017 crop season. It follows reports that some License Buying Companies have been starved of sufficient...
President John Mahama has advised cocoa farmers in the country to cut down their old cocoa trees and go for free seedlings for replanting and assured farmers of continuous government support. “If...
President John Mahama has commissioned a five-kilometer township road at Kyebi in the East Akyem municipality. The road is among several others being rehabilitated under the Cocoa Fund. The president...
President John Dramani Mahama has promised to revamp the cocoa production sector, especially in the Eastern Region, with the distribution of free seedlings expected to play a major role. Aside the...
