Tag Archives: cocoa

  By;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah LISTEN 4 HOURS AGO A gang of armed robbers has seized and fled with a KIA truck, loaded with 220 bags of cocoa beans, on the Bogoso-Tarkwa-Nsuaem road. The truck, with registration number AS 8864 – 19, was carrying the cocoa to the Takoradi Port. The …

  By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his determination to ensure cocoa farmers get value for money for what they produce is on course. “Ghana has instituted a strategic partnership with President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire to develop our cocoa industry,” he said and …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah     The Akufo-Addo administration, acting through the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) will inject a USD600-million stimulus package into the cocoa sector through a Cocoa Productivity Enhancement Programme, which is expected to, among other things, step up Ghana’s production to 1.5 million tonnes by 2027, Information Minister …

by;brightwebtv/nana asare barimah The Enchi District Magistrate Court on Monday sentenced two farmers to 48 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing seven bags of dried cocoa beans worth GH¢2,900 The two, Kwabena Kyei, 25 and Kwasi Asante, 26, were sentenced to 24 months each for causing unlawful damage and …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah JOSEPH BOAHEN AIDOO (CEO, COCOBOD) The government has increased the price of cocoa from GH¢7,600.00 to GH¢8,240.00 a tonne and GH¢475.00 to GH¢515.00 a bag, Dr. Gyiele Nurah, a Minister of State at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) announced on Tuesday. That implies 8.42 percentage …

By:brightwebtv.com /nana asare barimah     The government has resumed work on cocoa roads, Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister has announced. The resumption includes upgrading, routine and periodic maintenance activities of 1,362 km of trunk roads, 1,389 km of feeder roads, and 183 km of urban roads. The Finance Minister, …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   Former Western Regional Minister, Dr Kwaku Afriyie says not even angels can clamp down on the smuggling of cocoa beans from Ghana to neighbouring countries. To Dr Afriyie, who himself is a cocoa farmer in Ghana and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah   The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has thrown a challenge to his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama, to name a single policy his erstwhile government introduced to boost the production of cocoa in the country.     Addressing a durbar of Chiefs at Daboase, …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has challenged the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to provide evidence of any policy implemented during the Mahama administration to improve agriculture productivity. Speaking at a durbar held in Daboase, the capital of the Wassa East District, as part of his …

By:brightwebtv.com/nana asare barimah       Cocoa farmers at Otsenkorang in the Agona West Municipality in the Central region have clashed with staff of an oil plantation company for destroying their cocoa trees to replace them with palm trees. Reports by Adom News reporter, Kofi Adjei suggested that the destruction …