Tag: Cocoa

Ghana’s cocoa production dropped by nearly 50 per cent in the past three years, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, Minister of Finance, said on Tuesday. Presenting the 2025 Budget and Economic ...

Government  has announced an increase in the producer price of cocoa for the 2024/25 season at GHS 48,000  per tonne or GHS 3,000 per 64 kg bag.   The price ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has secured a US$100 million financing facility from the World Bank to rehabilitate old farms across six cocoa growing districts in the country. The beneficiary ...

Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOD), has inspired and educated cocoa farmers in the Central Region on best practices to increase yield. This ...

Bad cocoa harvests in West Africa and higher costs of living and production, are exacerbating farmer vulnerabilities in the fight against child labour in the sector, a 2023 Report by ...

The Ghana Cocoa Board on Friday said the purchases for the 2023/2024 main crop season would cease at the close of business on Thursday, June 6, 2024.   A statement ...

The Police have arrested a driver working for the Anlo Traditional Council for attempting to smuggle a large quantity of cocoa beans to neighboring Togo. Abraham Senyaglo, a 35-year-old native ...

 Mr Jerome Agbesi Dogbatse, a Research Scientist at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), says at the time the alleged sample of Cocoa Nti was delivered for testing, he ...

The Odumasi-Krobo Circuit Court has sentenced a cocoa buyer to seven years in prison with hard labour for attempting to smuggle bags of cocoa beans into Togo. Issifu Nyandi, who ...