The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has said it will spend US$250million on rehabilitating cocoa farms over the next three years.
The country is seeking to cut down and replant diseased and over-aged cocoa farms under a cocoa rehabilitation programme launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last month. About 40...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has called for scrapping the 35 percent tax on small and medium-scale cocoa processing companies.
The cocoa sector regulator maintained that the tax, known as import duty, is a disincentive to cocoa processing startups and small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs); and as such, could erode gains in...
Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), a farmer-based organisation, has held its12th annual general meeting in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, with a call on government and COCOBOD to strengthen productivity enhancement programmes.
It urged COCOBOD, the industry’s regulator, to ensure timely release and distribution of subsidised inputs to farmers while initiating a more...
Africa’s path to building prosperity is at the core of the continent’s development narrative. For over half a century, we have been trying to figure out what our way out of poverty and underdevelopment should be. Still, the struggle remains. Why might that be? Simply put, there are a...
Cocoa farmers only earn about 6% of the chocolate industry’s total revenues
Recent studies criticising the global chocolate industry for exploitative practices have concerned ethical consumers. Cocoa farmers only earn about 6% of the chocolate industry’s total revenues. Leading chocolate companies have since 2001 made pledges to end widespread abusive...
The leadership of the Ghana Cocoa Coffee and Shea nut Farmers Association (COCOSHE) have paid a working visit to the management of the Cocoa Processing Company Limited (CPC) at Tema.
The National President of COCOSHE, Alhaji Alhassan Bukari said that the visit was aimed at interacting with officials of the...
Demeter Ghana Ltd., one of Ghana’s leading fertiliser manufacturer, has added on to its brands Polysulphate cocoa fertiliser – also known as ‘Asaase Hene’ – to boost cocoa production in the country.
Asaase Hene is a multi-nutrient sulphate cocoa fertiliser which Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) trials have shown...
…as 38 year old electrician is sentenced to 7 years for attempted smuggling.
The war against illicit activities of cocoa smuggling syndicates, which was launched by Ghana Cocoa Board with support from the state’s security agencies, continues to yield positive results.
Few days after the Krobo Odumase Circuit Court in the...
VC Media, the organisers Ghana Cocoa Awards an industry scheme that recognises and celebrates excellence has opened nominations for the 2nd Ghana Cocoa Awards with over thirty awards up for grabs and scheduled to close on October 16, 2020.
Ghana Cocoa Awards was instituted to shine the limelight on personalities...