The Chief Executive Officer of Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo says the Board will soon distribute electronic scales that will be used to weigh cocoa in farming communities across the country. He said this at Pramkese in the Kwaebibirem Municipality of the Eastern Region as part of his working visit to the region. Mr. […]
The decision by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) to import and distribute motorized slashers to cocoa farmers in the country was born out of the government’s recognition of the need to alleviate the labour intensive parts of cocoa farming; beginning from planting to harvesting and then on to the sale of their harvest. It is […]
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has advised the public to ensure that discussion on the cocoa sector and in particular, the producer price paid to cocoa farmers for their produce, was guided by facts and not sentiments. In a response to recent comments on the producer price of cocoa by Citizens Watch, a think tank, […]
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 […]
The Ghana High Commission in South Africa has undertaken to market products of Cocoa Marketing Board in South Africa. This was the result of a meeting between the Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng and the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Cocoa Board, Joseph Boahen Aidoo. The meeting basically centred on how […]
Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo has called on managers and directors of the board to work innovatively to change the fortunes of the cocoa industry. He made the call when he briefed managers and directors from the head office, divisions and subsidiaries at a meeting held at Cocoa House […]
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is adopting a new policy of providing support services, farming products and inputs to cocoa farmers through their registered co-operatives to ensure a far more efficient and timely delivery of such products and services to all cocoa farmers across the country. The provision of products and services through co-operatives is […]
Ghana and Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producers of cocoa, will soon set up a Cocoa Stabilisation Fund Account under the respective cocoa initiatives of both countries. Two accounts will be created – one in Ghana and the other in Ivory Coast, both of which are provided for in the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Co-operation Charter. Chief […]
Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have established a new pricing mechanism for trade in cocoa beans. A $400 per tonne living income differential has been instituted to guarantee the floor price. This system takes into account a fixed income differential that will provide farmers with a decent income. The two countries, which are the world’s top […]
Alhaji Alhassan Bukari, the National President of the Ghana Cocoa, Coffee and Sheanut Farmers Association (COCOSHE), has expressed profound gratitude to the Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, for his “intelligent handling” of matters relating to the welfare of cocoa farmers in the country. According to him, he was very […]
Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) plans to issue up to two billion dollars in bonds to pay off some legacy debts on its books, Mr Ray Ankrah, Deputy Chief Executive Finance, has said. Speaking at a meeting with executives of Standard Bank Group in Accra, Mr Ankrah said Cocobod was looking at a tenor of between […]
Executives of the Standard Bank Group have visited the Chief Executive of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Aidoo Boahen. The Executives were at his office on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in Accra, to among other things, learn about the operations of the Ghana cocoa sector as well as to find out ways in which […]
