Cocoa production in Ghana

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Ghana Likely To Miss 2017/18 Cocoa Target Over Unfavourable Weather

Ghana may miss its cocoa production target for the 2017/2018 crop season if the weather pattern forecast by the Ghana...

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ADI Proposes Major Cocoa Sector Reforms

The Alliance for Development and industrialization, (ADI), an advocacy group and think tank comprising new generation...

Business

Cocoa Farmers Threaten To Blacklist Cocoa Buying Companies Over Cheating

Over 3,000 cocoa farmers in the Asunafo South District of the Brong Ahafo Region have threatened to blacklist licensed...

Business

Cocobod Awards Farmers On 32nd National Farmer’s Day

Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has awarded five distinguished farmers at the National Level during the 32nd National...

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COCOBOD Gives Fund To Qualified Buying Companies

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has released funds to qualified Licensed Buying Companies (LBC) to purchase...

Opinion

Agriculture In The Gold Coast

Imagine how food and cash crops were produced in the 1900s. Peasant farming held sway at the time across the country....

Business

Cocobod Rejects Claims of Insufficient Funds To Purchase Cocoa

COCOBOD has rejected claims of not releasing sufficient funds to purchase cocoa for the 2016/2017 crop season. It...

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Cut Old Cocoa Trees and Go For Free Seedlings – Mahama To Farmers

President John Mahama has advised cocoa farmers in the country to cut down their old cocoa trees and go for free...

Business

Cocoa Production To Improve

Although Ghana’s cocoa production fell short of industry forecasts for the 2015/16 growing season, increased...

Business

Cocoa Farmers Lament Poor Sales

Some cocoa farmers at Suaman Dadieso in the Western Region have expressed concern about the alleged inability of...

Business

Cocoa Producer Price Adjusted

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reviewed, upwards, the producer price of cocoa, from GH¢6,720 per tonne, to...

Business

Cocoa Producer Price Increased To GH?7,520 Per Tonne

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reviewed upwards, the producer price of cocoa from GH?6,720.00 per tonne to...

Politics

Greenstreet Lashes Out At Gov’t Over New Cocoa Producer Price

Presidential nominee for the Convention People’s Party, Ivor Greenstreet, says the new cocoa producer price announced...

Business

Cocobod Woos Youth Into Cocoa Growing

Cocobod has encouraged the youth to venture into cocoa growing to sustain the industry which has over the years kept...

Business

New Cocoa Prices Meant To Motivate Farmers – Cocobod

Cocobod has announced that the 11.76% increase in the producer price of cocoa for the 2016/2016 crop season is to...

Business

Cocoa Farmers Unhappy With ‘meagre’ Hike In Producer Price

Some cocoa farmers in the Ashanti Region have expressed disappointment in government over what they describe as a...

Business

Ghana Pegs Cocoa Price Per Bag At Gh¢475

Government has announced an increment in cocoa price per bag from Gh¢425 to Gh¢475 effective October 1, 2016. A...

Politics

Govt Announces New Producer Price of Cocoa

Government has increased the producer price of cocoa from 6,800 cedis per tonne to 7,600 cedis per tonne for the...

Business

Government Increases Producer Price of Cocoa

Government has reviewed upwards the producer price for cocoa at a ceremony to commemorate this year's national cocoa...