Government Must Halt Sale of Cocoa Farms To Miners – Farmers
Some cocoa farmers in the country have called on the government to halt the indiscriminate sale of cocoa farms to ...
Tag: Cocoa production in Ghana
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 ...
ADI Proposes Major Cocoa Sector Reforms
The Alliance for Development and industrialization, (ADI), an advocacy group and think tank comprising new generation entrepreneurs and business executives, ...
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 cocoa ...
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 Farmer’s Day celebration ...
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 cocoa for ...
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 ...
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 follows reports ...
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 ...
Cocoa Production To Improve
Although Ghana’s cocoa production fell short of industry forecasts for the 2015/16 growing season, increased investment in seed development programmes ...
Cocoa Farmers Lament Poor Sales
Some cocoa farmers at Suaman Dadieso in the Western Region have expressed concern about the alleged inability of Licensed Buying ...
Cocoa Producer Price Adjusted
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has reviewed, upwards, the producer price of cocoa, from GH¢6,720 per tonne, to GH¢7,520 for ...
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 GH?7,520 per ...
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 by the government is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ‘paltry’ increase ...
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 deputy ...
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 ...
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 day in ...