Tag: Joseph Boahen Aidoo
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Gov’t procures motorised slashers for cocoa farmers
Cocoa farmers in Ghana will from October this year begin the use of Motorised Slashers to weed their farms. This is a move towards mechanised farming which would help reduce the drudgery of the current practice of manual weeding involving the use of cutlasses and hoes, to prune farms. It also ties in…
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Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire to pay 70 percent of floor price to cocoa farmers
Cocoa farmers in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire will henceforth be entitled to a minimum of seventy percent of the agreed floor price. By this, farmers are expected to receive 1,820 dollars per tonne of cocoa beans sold granted the floor price is held constant at 2,600 dollars. In addition, the farmers will henceforth be protected…
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COCOBOD engages 22 banks to raise syndicate loan for 2019/20 crop season
The Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo is hopeful COCOBOD will be able to raise the needed funds to finance the 2019/2020 crop season through a syndicated loan. According to him, a team from COCOBOD and other relevant state institutions had a successful roadshow last week after engaging twenty-two banks abroad to raise…