In a world that’s growing increasingly concerned about corporate commitments to environmental and social responsibility, top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana are planning to make...
Women in agriculture in the Bono East Region have called for the use of scale and standardised measurement of farm produce at all markets in the...
Government has directed the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) to purchase all fertilizers necessary for the growing of cocoa and other crops from local sources, beginning next...
Dry weather and protracted conflicts have been identified by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the main cause of food insecurity in some 41 countries...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has secured US$1.3 billion from a consortium of 24 banks to finance cocoa purchases in the 2019/20 cocoa season. The syndication,...
The government says it intends to gradually shift the focus of agriculture in Ghana from a subsistence farming approach to an agri-business approach using the 2019...
Citizen Watch, one of the leading think tank groups in the country, has commended Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government for reviewing the farmgate price for cocoa...
Ghana will raise cocoa farmgate prices by 5.2% for the 2019/20 season, the first increase in four years, following strong sales of export contracts to chocolate...
COCOBOD is set to sign its annual cocoa loan syndication deal with some 20 French banks in September 2019. This was after it secured Parliament’s approval...
Government is seeking an amount of $1.5 billion for the purchase of Cocoa beans for the 2019/2020 crop season. In a motion tabled before parliament, Cocobod...