The Ghana COCOBOD is looking forward to cut down about one hundred million cocoa trees by the 2017/2018 crop season. The trees, mostly diseased ones, are among the 40 percent of total unproductive cocoa trees. According to the CEO of the COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, the destruction of the crops has become necessary to improve … Read more
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding efforts to tackle climate change effects on cocoa production. The practice is thwarting government’s Tree on the Farm’ initiative meant to address the impact of climate change on agriculture. Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development … Read more
A Tree Tenure Policy would soon roll-out to provide farmers the legal right to claim ownership of commercial trees planted on their farms and those that grow naturally, Mr Musah Abu-Juan, the Forestry Technical Director of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has announced. The policy is one of the initiatives being championed by … Read more
Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding efforts to tackle climate change effects on cocoa production. The practice is thwarting government’s ‘Tree on the Farm’ initiative meant to address the impact of climate change on agriculture. Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development … Read more
Mr Seidu Mahama, Suhum Municipal Best Farmer for two successive years, has called on traditional authorities to assist in educating cocoa farmers on the need to replant farms with the swollen shoot disease. He said affected farmers would be adequately compensated by the government, if they agree to cut down infested cocoa trees and replant … Read more
A study has ascertained that of all the factors driving deforestation in Ghana, agriculture is prime with cocoa cultivation being the leading cause of forest conversion in the high forest zone, while oil palm and rubber are becoming major threats. The study revealed that logging itself does not convert forests, but it opens up the … Read more
The world’s largest chocolate makers, including Nestlé, Mars and Mondelez, and cocoa traders, such as Cargill and Olam, have agreed to co-operate in ending deforestation in key cocoa growing areas, starting with the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The Twelve companies signed the agreement at a meeting hosted by Prince Charles in London on Thursday to … Read more
The Ghana Cocoa Coffee and Shea-nut Farmers Association (GCCSFA) has appealed to the government to bring back the Akuafo Cheque System to protect them from cheating by unscrupulous purchasing clerks. Receiving payment for cocoa sold to the licensed buying companies (LBCs) through the bank, they said would also enable them to secure loans from the … Read more
Ghana, and West-Africa, has not understood the true and real value of Cocoa, thinking it is a nice supreme cash crop to grow and feed families in their countries along with some revenues for their States. The White Man’s Intellect and Mentality has gone far beyond the Black Man’s old, old, old style to use … Read more
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has put in place various interventions and best agronomic practices to help double the output of the chocolate ingredient within 10 years. Noah Amenyah, Senior Public Affairs Manager of the Ghana Cocoa Board, said the country’s cocoa industry, touted as the nation’s economic back-bone will receive a further boost … Read more
Ghana, the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, has put in place a number of interventions and best agronomic practices to help double the output of the crop within ten years. Ghana’s cocoa industry touted as the nation’s economic backbone, will receive a further boost in its average annual cocoa output to over 1 million tonnes from … Read more
President John Mahama has advised cocoa farmers in the country to cut down their old cocoa trees and go for free seedlings for replanting and assured farmers of continuous government support. “If you are a cocoa farmer and your cocoa plants are old, cut them down and go for free seedlings for replanting. The old … Read more
President John Mahama has advised cocoa farmers in the country to cut down their old cocoa trees and go for free seedlings for replanting. The president explained the old plants do not give the farmers enough yields which in turn affect production of cocoa in Ghana. President Mahama believes government’s investments in the cocoa sector … Read more
Although Ghana’s cocoa production fell short of industry forecasts for the 2015/16 growing season, increased investment in seed development programmes and infrastructure upgrades should improve output over the coming years. “Crop production for the 2015/16 growing season, which spans October to September, reached 690,000 tonnes, although this fell short of the 850,000-tonne projection made by … 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
Cocoa bean farmers are at the bottom of a global supply chain that stands “firmly against [them].” Because the traders, processors, exporters and manufacturers all sit above farmers on that chain and demand a profit margin, farmers have little bargaining power and receive the bare minimum for their product. N’Da Alphonse, the first farmer to … Read more