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ICE aims to help cocoa, coffee firms meet EU deforestation rule

LONDON/BRUSSELS, June 13 (Reuters) – Intercontinental Exchange (ICE.N) plans a traceability service to help cocoa and coffee firms comply with a new EU law preventing the import of commodities linked to deforestation. The law, expected to come into effect around end-2024, will require companies selling commodities in the European Union to produce a due diligence […]

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Ghana risks losing cocoa sector: COCOBOD accumulates losses, Non-producing countries start production

Ghana risks losing its major foreign exchange earner cocoa, due to a combination of factors such as illegal mining, accumulated losses and major developments by some advanced countries to aggressively grow and export the crop. The Ghana Cocoa Board which is mandated to supervise the production and export of cocoa in the country is reeling

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Minority descends on COCOBOD over Mahama’s claims

The Minority in Parliament has accused the Ghana COCOBOD of misinforming the public and peddling falsehood.Their accusations come in defense of former President John Mahama’s claims about Ghana’s cocoa sector.John Mahama had9 stated that Ghana’s cocoa sector is on the brink of collapse due to the government’s mismanagement. The ranking Member on Parliament’s Food, Agriculture,

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ICCO March Report

For the 2022/23 mid-crop, the Ivorian and Ghanian regulators have left unchanged the fixed farm-gate price to 900 XOF per kg ($1,507 per tonne) and 12,800 GHS per tonne ($1,206 US per tonne), respectively.

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