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...
Ghana may miss its cocoa production target for the 2017/2018 crop season if the weather pattern forecast by the Ghana Meteorological Service is anything to go by. The service has predicted severe...
The Alliance for Development and industrialization, (ADI), an advocacy group and think tank comprising new generation entrepreneurs and business executives, has noted with great concern the decline...
Over 3,000 cocoa farmers in the Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo Region have threatened to blacklist licensed cocoa buying companies who are cheating them by adjusting their weighing scales....
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has awarded five distinguished farmers at the National Level during the 32nd National Farmer’s Day celebration held at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region, in recognition...
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...
Imagine how food and cash crops were produced in the 1900s. Peasant farming held sway at the time across the country. Documents concerning the evolution of farming over the years show steady increase...
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. The president explained the old plants do not give the...
Although Ghana’s cocoa production fell short of industry forecasts for the 2015/16 growing season, increased investment in seed development programmes and infrastructure upgrades should improve...
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...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reviewed, upwards, the producer price of cocoa, from GH¢6,720 per tonne, to GH¢7,520 for the 2016/2017 season. A statement issued in Accra, and copied to the...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reviewed upwards, the producer price of cocoa from GH?6,720.00 per tonne to GH?7,520 per tonne for the 2016/2017 season. A statement issued in Accra and copied to...
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 increased the producer price of cocoa from 6,800 cedis per tonne to 7,600 cedis per tonne for the 2016/17 cocoa season. This means every 64kg bag of cocoa beans will attract 475 cedis...
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,...
