In a bid to increase cocoa production in the country, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has raised and distributed 60 million quality hybrid seedlings and four million permanent shade tree seedlings to cocoa farmers in the country. It intends to increase the number of nurseries to 332 across the cocoa belt in the country. The … Read more
Cocobod has within the last two years distributed a total of 110 million hybrid cocoa seedlings to farmers across the nation as part of scale up effort to boost production levels. Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni, the Chief Executive, said four million permanent shade tree seedlings were also supplied during the period. This was contained in … Read more
More than 1,000 cocoa farmers from about 500 farming communities across Ghana received a total of $1m interest-free loans from Olam Ghana Limited, a leading supply chain manager of agri-products and one of the country’s biggest cocoa buying agencies. Mr. Eric Asare Botwe, Manager of Olam’s Cocoa Licensed Buying Company (LBC) business who made this … Read more
The Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union (KKFU) has taken steps to aid its members to adopt best practices through the use of information, communication and technology (ICT). Ms. Fatima Ali, the President, said this had become important given the difficulty many farmers were having with access to extension and technical services. The move comes against the … Read more
The Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Samson Ahi, has bemoaned the debilitating effect illegal mining (galamsey) is having on the cocoa industry, charging Licenced Buying Companies (LBCs) to join the fight to end the situation. Galamsey activities are rampant in all the cocoa-growing areas, especially in Ashanti, Western, Eastern, Central and Brong … Read more
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under its five year project to mitigate the effects of climate change in the country’s cocoa landscape, has in the past two years supplied 800,000 economic tree seedlings to more than 6,000 farmers in growing areas of the cash crop. The project named the “Environment Sustainability and Policy for … Read more