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COCOBOD cautions buying companies on scale adjustment
Posted on: Wed 08 Feb, 2012.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has
noted with deep concern reports that some purchasing clerks (PCs)
working for Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs) in some parts of the
country have deliberately been adjusting their weighing scales to cheat
cocoa farmers. Read more...
Parliament lauds COCOBOD for exceeding 1m metric tons cocoa target
Posted on: Wed 02 Nov, 2011.
Former boss of the Ghana Cocoa Board
(COCOBOD), Isaac Osei, has congratulated COCOBOD for achieving the one
million metric tons of cocoa in the 2010/2011. Read more...
US$13.5m African cocoa initiative to be launched
Posted on: Mon 24 Oct, 2011.
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID) and the Sustainable Trade
Initiative (IDH) say the new African Cocoa Initiative (WCF/ACI), a
Global Development Alliance partnership to invest in sustainable cocoa
programs in West Africa, will be launched in the coming weeks. Read more...
President pledges more investment in cocoa sector
Posted on: Mon 03 Oct, 2011.
In spite of the recent gains in the cocoa
industry, President John Evans Atta Mills says the government is
committed to investing more in the sector and support for farmers to
further increase production to develop the economy.
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COCOBOD gets US$2b loan to purchase cocoa
Posted on: Fri 23 Sep, 2011.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has clinched a
record syndicated loan deal of $2 billion for the purchase of cocoa and
other cocoa-related activities in the country.
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'Cocoa was key to World Food Prize'
Posted on: Wed 22 Jun, 2011.
Ghana's former President John Kufuor has told the BBC a dramatic
improvement in his country's cocoa industry was the key to him winning
the World Food Prize. Read more...
Cocoa - Better Times Ahead - President Kufuor
Posted on: Thu 02 Oct, 2008.
Ghana has projected to process more than 50 per cent of its cocoa to achieve value-added production by the middle of next year, President J. A. Kufuor has announced at Dunkwa-on-Offin.
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Produce Buying Company Improves Performance
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
After two consecutive years of losses, the Produce Buying Company (PBC), a licenced cocoa buying company in the country, has, at the end of the financial year in September 2007, returned to profitability. Read more...
Thanks to God for COCOBOD@60
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
Daasebre Akuamoah Boateng II, Board Chairman of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr Isaac Osei, Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Major (RTD) Courage Quashigah, Minister of Health, staff of COCOBOD and the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana on Sunday joined worshippers at the Holy Sprit Cathedral Catholic Church in Accra to climax their 60th anniversary celebration. Read more...
President Kufuor announces increase in cocoa producer price
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
President John Agyekum Kufuor on Monday announced an upward adjustment of the producer price of cocoa from GH 9,015 cedis (9.15 million cedis) per tonne to GH 9,050 cedis (9.5 million cedis), effective from the 2007/2008 main crop season.
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$70m cocoa factory in Ghana
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
The Government’s drive towards achieving value addition for Ghana’s raw cocoa beans has received a big boost with a 70 million-dollar processing investment by Cargill, a global leader in the cocoa and chocolate supply chain. Read more...
Members of Cocoa Foundation visit Ghana
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
Members of the Cocoa Foundation, a global body that deals in the processing, manufacturing and trading of cocoa has paid a maiden visit to Ghana to understudy the handling of the country's major cash crop.
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Minister calls for massive investment in three Northern Regions
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
Kumasi, Oct 29, GNA- Mrs Agnes Chigabatia, Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, has challenged the people of the three Northern Regions to invest in their areas to help improve the living conditions of the people. Read more...
COCOBOD projects 650,000 metric tonnes for 2007/08 Cocoa season
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
Accra, GNA - The 2007/08 main cocoa crop season opened on Friday with the Ghana Cocoa Board, the industry regulator, projecting a production output of 650,000 metric tonnes for the period. Read more...
Cocoa Farmers Go To School
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
A Senior Communication Officer of Strategic Communications Africa Limited (STRATCOM), Mr Macdonald Bubuama has called on cocoa farmers to adopt and use modern agricultural technologies to increase their yields. Read more...
Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) Connected to the Internet
Posted on: Thu 08 May, 2008.
H.E. Filiberto Ceriani Sebregondi, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Ghana, on Thursday, October 4, 2006 handed over a network server and a VSAT broadband internet connection to the Management of the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana at Tafo in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Read more...
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