Cocoa farmers in the world's second-biggest producer Ghana are expecting a bumper harvest for the upcoming 2025/2026 season, buoyed by improved flowering and pod development, even as they grapple with ...

The Cocoa Health and Extension Division of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has engaged cocoa farmers in the Bodi District of ...

Kwame Alex, who became the National Best Cocoa Farmer in 2024, produced over 2,000 bags last season. Alex is even more ambitious, aiming to reach 3,000 bags next season, he told Reuters.

The relentless efforts of the Anti-Cocoa Smuggling Task Force in collaboration with the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCU25) on Wednesday closed up +291 (+3.57%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25) closed up +114 (+2.13%).

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has maintained the producer price of cocoa at GH₵3,100 per 64kg bag for the 2025/2026 season, ...

Ghana's graded and sealed (G&S) cocoa arrivals as of Jan. 6 were down 53.9% on the previous season, falling to 263,000 tonnes from 570,000, COCOBOD cocoa marketing board data showed on Wednesday.

Ghana raised cocoa farmers’ pay by 21%, ... Farmers will receive 12,800 cedis ($1,219) a ton, or 800 cedis per bag of 64 kilos, for the season that begins Oct. 7, ...

Ghana's graded and sealed (G&S) cocoa arrivals since the start of this year's harvest on Oct. 1 had reached 408,000 tonnes by Feb. 3, down 42% from same period of the previous season, figures from ...

Ghana Cocoa Board is in talks with the government to approve an increase to 54,656 cedis ($3,488) per ton, or 3,416 cedis a 64-kilogram bag, according to people familiar with the matter.

“In 2022, Ghana lost about 150,000 metric tonnes of cocoa beans through smuggling to our neighbours and that was a colossal $600-million revenue gone down the drain,” he said.