The management of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and the General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana (GAWU) to usher in a new era of major advances in the welfare packages of thousands of COCOBOD workers. The two unions, who represent over […]
The debate on the president’s salary compared to some CEO’s of state institutions continue to rage on as some people find it difficult to understand why an appointee of the president should earn more than the president. For example, it is rumored that the Commissioner General of the Ghana Revenue Authority takes home 60 thousand […]
Cocoa farmers in Ghana will earn GH₵1,000 more than their counterparts in La Cote d’Ivoire for the producer price of the commodity in the 2018/2019 crop season which opened on October 1, 2018. This is in spite of Cote d’Ivoire, the world’s top cocoa producer, increasing guaranteed price it pays farmers by seven per cent– […]
The Chief Executive Officer of Cocobod, Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo has extolled the members and leadership of the Ghana Cocoa, coffee and sheanut farmers association to consider the trade as serious business that should yield profit for them. According Mr. Aidoo, it is the commitment of the current government under the leadership of president Nana […]
The District Chief Executive for Dormaa East District in the Brong Ahafo Region, Emmanuel Kofi Agyemang has admonished cocoa farmers in his district not to cut down their cocoa trees for cashew plantation. Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Agyemang revealed that information available to him indicates that some cocoa farmers in his district were planning to cut down […]
