Tag: cocoa
Ghana announces 63% hike in cocoa farmers’ prices to tackle smuggling
Ghana’s cocoa industry regulator called for boosting the rate farmers get for their crops by more than 60% to discourage them from smuggling beans...
Oppong Nkrumah welcomes ‘no EU ban on Ghanaian cocoa’ report
The Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has welcomed news from the European Union (EU) that there is no ban on cocoa from...
Sustainability requirements shouldn’t be a ruse to block our cocoa and...
The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has called on the European Union (EU) to work with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...
Cocoa farmers bemoan non-payment of produce
Cocoa farmers in the Assin North, Assin Central and Assin South Districts of the Central Region have lamented over non-payments of their...
Gov’t to settle cocoa farmers from Monday – Dr Afriyie Akoto
Government will begin paying farmers for cocoa starting Monday February 22.
This was disclosed by a Minister-designate for Food...
Akufo-Addo launches cocoa farmers’ pension scheme
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, 1st December 2020, launched a pension scheme for the country’s 1.5 million cocoa famers.
Child labour rising in Ghana’s cocoa farms – Study
The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast during the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it,...
Akufo-Addo’s investments in our lives best so far – Cocoa Farmers
Cocoa farmers in Mpraeso Constituency have said government's investments in improving their living conditions were the best so far.
Akufo-Addo is buying farmers with new producer price of cocoa –...
The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, says the recent increment in the producer price of...
NPP exposes Mahama over inflated cocoa road projects
The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it has in no way neglected cocoa road projects as being claimed by former...
