Excess supplies seen falling from record to about 50,000 tonnes
Demand is growing in countries, including Indonesia and India
The world just can’t get enough chocolate.
With "tremendous" demand in emerging markets looking set to continue this season, the world’s third-largest cocoa processor is projecting a sharply smaller global surplus....
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planting over 1.6 million forest trees in the 2020/2021 cocoa crop year on cocoa farms across the country and also as part of its National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme.
COCOBOD is embarking on the rehabilitation programme to replace about 40% of the country's cocoa tree stock...
By: Kingsley Nana Buadu
Two paramount Chiefs in the Central Region where Lithium deposit is found in larger quantities have expressed worry over what they described as the delay in the approval of the lithium and bauxite mining agreement in parliament.
According to them, the found mineral in the area is a major...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abdulai Jinapor has notice that public auction would not be done for all confiscated natural resources such as rosewood, which are ban for export.
The Minister warned explicitly that no Rosewood is permitted to leave the shores of Ghana per the laws...
Government has said it will soon launch a Public Register of Petroleum Agreements, Permits and Authorisations, in accordance with the provisions of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Law.
According to the Deputy Minister of Energy in charge of Petroleum, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, the move is to outline Government’s commitment...
The Petroleum Commission in partnership with Tullow Ghana Limited, has transformed the Sargassum seaweed into raw material, used in the fishing communities.
The Sargassum seaweed, (a leafy rootless and buoyant algae that bunch up around ocean) hitherto, was a public nuisance that came along some coastal beaches in the country...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has refuted allegations made by the Member of Parliament for the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, that the authority is acting with impunity and engaging in an act of illegality.
Dr. Forson alleged that the NPA is illegally receiving revenues through the collection of...
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has rolled out a rehabilitation programme for cocoa farms affected by the swollen shoot disease in the Western North Cocoa Region.
As part of the rehabilitation exercise, COCOBOD has directed all diseased cocoa trees to be cut down for re-planting with new hybrid cocoa seedlings.
Cocoa production...
The Project Management Institute, Ghana is alarmed at the devastating effects of illegal mining on the nation. We cannot, as a nation, deliberately destroy our very own existence under the guise of keeping a select few in business.
We are therefore urging all citizens and stakeholders in the illegal mining...