Government is expected to announce a new producer price for cocoa for the 2025/2026 crop season today, August 4, 2025. Joy Business understands the announcement will proceed following the completion of work by all the committees tasked with reviewing the pricing structure and after the necessary stakeholder consultations. There are strong indications that the new price […]
The police in the Volta Region last Tuesday (May 13) intercepted a petrol tanker travelling from Madina in Accra to Jasikan, which was loaded with cocoa beans and not fuel. It was believed the cocoa beans were meant for smuggling into neighbouring Togo. The vehicle with registration number, GN 3801-13, has been impounded, while the […]
Officers of the Ghana Immigration Service stationed at the Akanu Sector Command with the support of some officers of the Ghana Revenue Authority-Customs Division have intercepted a truck loaded with smuggled cocoa beans. The Officers acted on intelligence and waylaid the truck with registration number AS 2103 -W driven by one Ibrahim Fatawu. There were […]
Ghana has lost more than a third of its 2023/24 cocoa output to smuggling, a top official from the cocoa marketing board (Cocobod) told Reuters, as low local prices and payment delays push some farmers to sell to increasingly sophisticated trafficking rings. Poor harvests in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s second-largest and largest producers, […]
