Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, world’s top cocoa producers, consider hiking farm gate price
Onome Amuge The world’s largest cocoa producers, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are seeking to dampen the economic blow of the pandemic on
Nigerian Cocoa: Troubled on different fronts
Onome Amuge Farmers, stakeholders on production plunge Nigeria’s leading agricultural export and cash crop, cocoa, has suffered a
NEPC says Cross River has comparative advantage to export cocoa, rice
…as dearth of storage, processing facilities hamper growth The Nigeran Export Promotion Council (NEPC), the leading Federal Government
Cocoa farmers call for irrigation across producing states
Cocoa farmers in Nigeria tasked the Federal government on the need to establish irrigation across cluster cocoa farms in the country.
Cocoa farmers urge government to include cocoa drink in school children daily meal
By Kenneth Afor In a conscious effort to boost the nation’s agriculture sector and to make the federal government’s school feeding
Cocoa’s OPEC moment puts market on track for boom and bust
The world’s two biggest cocoa producers are taking unprecedented steps to exert more control on the market in a bid to help farmers.
Ivory Coast to keep cocoa output in check under new price plan
Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator said it will seek to maintain output of the beans at current levels even as the country and neighboring
Ivory Coast explores auctioning in cocoa price control effort
Ivory Coast’s Cocoa Coffee Council (CCC) has decided to auction all of its cocoa production to exporters in advance in order to set a
Local food item prices flat in August entry
Prices of local food items were generally flat in the week opening August with key items like palm oil, tomatoes, flour, yam and sugar
Nigeria determined to de-risk cocoa, palm fruit, livestock value chains
Nigeria has restated its commitment to de-risking agriculture value chains with the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing for