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Tag: Ghana Cocoa Board
COCOBOD Gives Fund To Qualified Buying Companies
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says it has released funds to qualified Licensed Buying Companies (LBC) to purchase cocoa for ...
Prez To Build Tomato Factory At Afrancho
Mr Michael Borboryoe Nartey, Overall Best 2016 Farmer for the Ningo-Prampram District, says the Greater Accra Region would in some ...
Gov’t Urged To Separate Shea Butter Board From Cocobod
President of Upper East Regional House of Chiefs Naba Sigri Bewong, who is also a board member of the Savannah ...
Mahama Tags Nana Addo As ‘ignorant’
President John Dramani Mahama has accused the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of ignorance about developments in the cocoa industry. According ...
Cocobod Released Funds For Purchases
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has debunked rumours circulating within the industry, that funds for the purchase of cocoa for ...
We Are Kiiling The Goose That Lays The Golden EGG
This year’s farmers’ day will be celebrated on Friday 4th November, 2016 and a fair, passionate and objective minded columnist ...
Cocobod Rejects Claims of Insufficient Funds To Purchase Cocoa
COCOBOD has rejected claims of not releasing sufficient funds to purchase cocoa for the 2016/2017 crop season. It follows reports ...
Terkper Hunts For US$2bn From China
The government has revived talks with the China Development Bank (CDB) for the remainder of the almost US$2 billion loan ...
Gov’t Negotiates To Access Remaining US$3bn Chinese Loan
Government is in strategic negotiations with Chinese authorities to access the remainder of the US$3 billion loan for energy and ...
Free Seedling Distribution Will Boost Cocoa Production – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has promised to revamp the cocoa production sector, especially in the Eastern Region, with the distribution ...
Illegal Miners Threaten Cocoa Target For 2016/17 Crop Season
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is expressing worry over activities of illegal miners. The Intelligence Department of the Ghana Cocoa ...
Cocoa Production To Improve
Although Ghana’s cocoa production fell short of industry forecasts for the 2015/16 growing season, increased investment in seed development programmes ...
Cocobod Grabs Two Chinese Miners
Two Chinese illegal miners have been arrested by the Intelligence Department of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD). Li Wen Qieng ...
Galamsey Threatens Cocoa Production
The Oxford Business Group (OBG) has warned that Ghana risks losing a substantial part of its agriculture land due to ...
REBUTTAL; You Love Northerners, But Whats There To Show.
I read with deep concern the article published on Manasseh’s folder on a very sensitive and potentially divisive subject of ...
Amissah-Arthur Promises Cocoa Farmers Better Price
The Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has ended his four-day tour of the Central Region with his “Touching base campaign” with ...
NDC Gov’t Distributed Non-Tested Agro-Chemicals To Farmers
The Minority Spokesperson on Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has made an allegation against the Mahama-led ...
Gov’t ‘cheating’ Cocoa Farmers
The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of fixing a low cocoa producer price for the 2016/2017 crop year. ...
Cocoa Farmers Lament Poor Sales
Some cocoa farmers at Suaman Dadieso in the Western Region have expressed concern about the alleged inability of Licensed Buying ...