Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCo), a licensed cocoa buying company, has presented a cheque for GH¢4.5million as premium to certified cocoa farmers for the 2021/2022 crop season.
The premium is to encourage the famers to give off their best, especially on best farming practices, and it also forms part of the...
The Associate Executive Director of WACAM, Hannah Owusu-Koranteng, has stated that mining communities - especially cocoa farming areas - are being completely demolished as a result of weak laws and the lobby power of mining companies, which have emboldened them to bully farmers and local residents.
She stressed that mining...
Blame unfair income
Uncompetitive cocoa prices on the international market is forcing cocoa farmers in gold-producing areas to sell farmlands for illegal mining activities, the Ghana Civil-society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has said.
The situation is rather disturbing, given cocoa has been the main cash crop that has been the backbone...
But will farmers' expectations be met on 2022 Cocoa Day?
October 1 is designated annually as Cocoa Day. It marks the commencement of the cocoa year which ends in September the following year.
Cocoa Day is dedicated to celebrating the work and contributions of smallholder farmers to cocoa-producing economies and also...
In 2017, a German investor who initially came to Ghana to explore the viability of a solar business ended up establishing the first cocoa-pulp manufacturing factory in Ghana. They recently also launched their blockchain-based transparency system to demonstrate to their customers how much they pay their partner farmers. While...
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...