President John Mahama has promised to construct three additional roads in the Eastern Region. According to him, the roads have been captured under the cocoa roads programme to fast track its...
Thousands of women in rural communities in Central and West Africa are reaping the rewards from Nestle’s agricultural support and capacity-building programmes to increase their yields, crop quality...
As part of measures to improve the livelihoods of farmers in cocoa communities, Nestlé Ghana, with its Create Share Value (CSV), has partnered the International Cocoa Initiative and the World Cocoa...
Some cocoa farmers at Suaman Dadieso in the Western Region have expressed concern about the alleged inability of Licensed Buying Companies (LBC's) to purchase their crops resulting in pilling up of...
Presidential nominee for the Convention People’s Party, Ivor Greenstreet, says the new cocoa producer price announced by the government is inadequate, and falls short of the investment of the cocoa...
Cocobod has encouraged the youth to venture into cocoa growing to sustain the industry which has over the years kept the national economy going. Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, the Chief Executive Officer...
Cocobod has announced that the 11.76% increase in the producer price of cocoa for the 2016/2016 crop season is to motivate farmers and also curb the smuggling of the commodity to neighbouring La Cote...
Some cocoa farmers in the Ashanti Region have expressed disappointment in government over what they describe as a ‘paltry’ increase in producer price of cocoa. The Deputy Minister of Finance, Ato...
Government has announced an increment in cocoa price per bag from Gh¢425 to Gh¢475 effective October 1, 2016. A deputy Finance Minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, announced the 2016/17 cocoa price at the...
Government has reviewed upwards the producer price for cocoa at a ceremony to commemorate this year's national cocoa day in Tepa in the Ashanti Region. The new price will go for GHS 475.00 per bag,...
One million, four hundred and thirteen thousand, three hundred and thirty three (1,413,333) hectares of cocoa farms in the country have benefited from the free fertilizers under Ghana Cocoa Board’s...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a $1.8billion cocoa syndicated loan agreement in Frankfurt, Germany, for the 2016/2017 cocoa crop year. The facility will go into the purchase of cocoa...
Citi Business News has gathered that Ghana will soon start inviting bids for the auctioning of the foreign-exchange proceeds from the Ghana Cocoa Board’s syndicated loans for the 2016/2017 crop...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it secured US$1.8 billion syndicated loan from a consortium of banks to allow it purchase cocoa beans for the 2016/2017 crop season beginning next month will hit Bank...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) will pay more for it's annual cocoa loan this year than it did for the US$1.8 billion it took from the international finance market last year. Although the board is...
In a bid to increase cocoa production in the country, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has raised and distributed 60 million quality hybrid seedlings and four million permanent shade tree seedlings to...
More than 1,000 cocoa farmers from about 500 farming communities across Ghana received a total of $1m interest-free loans from Olam Ghana Limited, a leading supply chain manager of agri-products and...
Boanna, a sleepy village in the heart of Brong-Ahafo close to Sunyani and Techiman, laid quietly in the afternoon sun with work done for the day. Women and Girls were standing under the Village Tree...
Olam Ghana Limited has given over 1,000 cocoa farmer $1million interest-free loans in addition to the GHS4million premium it paid them for the 2015/2016 cocoa season. Head of Business at Olam Ghana...
Head of Business at Olam Ghana Limited, Eric Botwe said the company has given over 1,000 cocoa farmer $1million interest-free loans in addition to the GHC4million premium it paid them for the...
