COCOBOD To Cut Down Over 100 Million Cocoa Trees
The Ghana COCOBOD is looking forward to cut down about one hundred million cocoa trees by the 2017/2018 crop season. ...
Tag: Environmental effects of cocoa production
Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Thwart Gov’t’s ‘Tree On the Farm’ Initiative
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding ...
Farmers Soon To Claim Ownership of Commercial Trees
A Tree Tenure Policy would soon roll-out to provide farmers the legal right to claim ownership of commercial trees planted ...
Timeabu Cocoa Farmers Heighten Risk of Climate Change As They Cut Down Trees On Farms
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding ...
Cocoa Farmers Schooled On “CSSVD”
Mr Seidu Mahama, Suhum Municipal Best Farmer for two successive years, has called on traditional authorities to assist in educating ...
Study Identifies Farming In Forest Reseves As Lead Cause of Deforestation
A study has ascertained that of all the factors driving deforestation in Ghana, agriculture is prime with cocoa cultivation being ...
Nestle, Others Agree To End Deforestation In Ghana, Ivory Coast
The world’s largest chocolate makers, including Nestlé, Mars and Mondelez, and cocoa traders, such as Cargill and Olam, have agreed ...
Farmers Ask Government To Bring Back Akuafo Cheque System
The Ghana Cocoa Coffee and Shea-nut Farmers Association (GCCSFA) has appealed to the government to bring back the Akuafo Cheque ...
There Is Power In Cocoa
Ghana, and West-Africa, has not understood the true and real value of Cocoa, thinking it is a nice supreme cash ...
COCOBOD Outlines Interventions To Boost Cocoa Production
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has put in place various interventions and best agronomic practices to help double the ...
Cocobod Outlines Interventions To Boost Cocoa Production
Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer, has put in place a number of interventions and best agronomic practices to help ...
Cut Down Old Cocoa Trees—Prez Mahama Tells Farmers
President John Mahama has advised cocoa farmers in the country to cut down their old cocoa trees and go for ...
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 ...
UNDP Mitigates Impacts of Climate Change In Cocoa Growing Areas
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under its five year project to mitigate the effects of climate change in the ...
Unbelievably: Cocoa Farmers from the Ivory Coast Tasting Chocolate for the First Time
Cocoa bean farmers are at the bottom of a global supply chain that stands "firmly against ." Because the traders, ...