The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) spent almost a billion Ghana cedis last year to rehabilitate aged cocoa farms and those ravaged by swollen shoot virus disease (SSVD) to help increase national production in the short to medium term. The money was used to fund the cutting down of diseased and aged cocoa trees, nursing and […]
The food giant that owns the Cadbury brand is embroiled in fresh allegations of employing child labour after an investigation obtained footage of children working with machetes on cocoa farms in its supply chain, the Guardian has reported. According to the UK website, Children as young as 10 have allegedly been found working in Ghana to harvest […]
The Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo has sternly cautioned cocoa farmers across the country to desist from child labour practices and from bringing their children to farms even for mundane tasks that can be misconstrued as child labour. He said COCOBOD has taken a stance against the use of […]
