Tag: Cocoa Producer Price
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COCOBOD must monitor to ensure cocoa farmers enjoy new producer price – GCCP
The Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP), has charged COCOBOD to strengthen its surveillance at various depots and cocoa-sheds to ensure cocoa farmers enjoy the new farm gate price for cocoa without being cheated. Over the years, some cocoa purchasing clerks have been accused of cheating farmers by illegally adjusting weighing scales to the disadvantage of…
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Farmers welcome new Cocoa Producer Price but call for protection of trees
The Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana has welcomed President Nana Akufo-Addo’s announcement of a 28 percent increase in the farmgate price of cocoa, for the upcoming 2020/2021 crop season. It, however, said more attention needs to be given to other pressing needs of cocoa farmers. The increase in the Cocoa Producer Price, which represents the…
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2020/2021 Cocoa Producer Price increased from GHS514 to GHS660 per bag
The President, Nana Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season. Effective October 1, 2020, the new producer price is pegged at GHS10,560 per metric tonne of cocoa indicating that a bag of cocoa is now GHS660. The current price per 64kg bag of cocoa, which stands at GHS514…
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GCCP advocates for increment in cocoa producer price
The Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP) has demanded from COCOBOD, an increase in the producer price for cocoa to improve the living standards of Ghanaian cocoa farmers. “Our greatest concern in this milestone, however, is to see a direct and obvious change in the farm gate price of cocoa beans, such that farmers’ income and…
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Cocoa producer price increment timely — GAWU
The General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) has described the increment in cocoa prices as timely. The government on Tuesday 2nd October,2019 announced that the producer price for a ton of cocoa has been increased to GH¢8, 249 while that of 64 kg bag would now be sold at GH¢515. This comes after the price per…