Organisers of Ghana Cocoa Awards, Cocoa Post, have opened nominations for the fourth edition of the annual cocoa industry excellence reward scheme. Ghana Cocoa Awards is an initiative instituted to appreciate and highlight outstanding achievements by personalities and organisations in the cocoa value chain. More than thirty organisations and individuals...
Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), says management has resolved to reduce the huge debt burden. The huge chunk of debt accumulation - approximately GH¢12.30billion as of September 2020 - emanates from short-term cocoa loans of about GH¢8.49billion, accounting for 69.02 percent of total...
For a record time, Ghana’s cocoa yields for the 2020-21 crop year soared to over one million tonnes, according to data from the Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). This is after nine years of turbulent annual production since the crop year 2010/11, with...
Fairtrade Africa has organised its General Assembly (GA) last week in Accra, Ghana for Fairtrade certified producer organisations across the continent. The GA is the highest decision-making body of Fairtrade Africa, constituted by representatives of producer organisations across Africa who meet annually to deliberate on topics related to trade,...
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...
…as 65% of cocoa lands belong to those aged between 50-65 Land ownership and acquisition for cocoa cultivation by young people under age 30 who are interested in the commodity has become difficult, with major cocoa land owners falling within the 50-65 age bracket, a finding by the Agricultural Policy...
Invest for Jobs, an initiative of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has launched a project with Touton aimed at revamping the Ghanaian cocoa industry. The project-Cocoa Jobs for Organic Integrated and Improved Rural Economy’ will promote Ghana’s organic and climate-smart cocoa production value chain in line...
COCOBOD has announced that it has received commitment from its trade partners to pay the US$400 Living Income Differential (LID) to farmers for the 2021/2022 cocoa crop season. The LID was an initiative pushed by Ghana and La Cote d’Ivoire to set aside a fixed amount of US$400 solely for...
COCOBOD, from October, 2022 will begin the issuance of electronic cash to farmers for all cocoa purchases, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Dr. Emmanuel Opoku has said. Currently, COCOBOD buys all cocoa with physical cash from farmers across the country, but the trend of paying hard cash to farmers...
 …. signs US$1.5bn financial agreement with 28 banks The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a US$1.5billion financial agreement with a consortium of foreign and local banks to finance the purchase of cocoa beans for the 2021/2022 crop season. This season’s financial agreement is an increase of US$200million compared to the...