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The real account of the blacksmith who transported the first cocoa seeds to Ghana in 1879

The most common legends about Tetteh Quarshie, the man who brought the first cocoa seedlings to Ghana, are that the plants originated in Fernando...

Localising conversations on Living Income Differential: Where is the Local Cocoa Farmer?

In 1879, Ghana planted our first cocoa tree. In the 2018–19 and 2019–20 cocoa seasons, respectively, Ghana produced 812,000 and 850,000 metric tonnes of...

Ghana’s cocoa production for 2022 falls by 34.7%

Cocoa production for Ghana in the 2021/2022 did not yield the expected results, as production fell by 34.7 percent. According to the Ministry of Finance...

Over 70% of cocoa lands in Ghana will not be suitable again by 2050 if… – UK’s Harriet Thompson

The United Kingdom High (UK) Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson has indicated that by 2050, over 70 per cent of the lands in Ghana...

Herbal medicine can rake in GH¢30 billion – Traditional medicine practitioners

Traditional medicine practitioners have indicated that government should refocus its attention on their operations because it can earn the country billions of cedis to...

Domestic Violence: Woman, 37, escapes husband’s lynching

A 37-year-old mother of four, Donkor Margeret, is battling for her life at the Tamale Teaching Hospital after her husband inflicted machete wounds on...

Kwaebiberem: Low cocoa proceeds pushing us to offer farmlands for galamsey – Farmers

Farmers in the Kwaebiberem Municipality in the Eastern Region have attributed the low monetary returns from their farms as the reason they exchange their...

‘Bad road causing our cocoa, foodstuffs to rot’ – Mmofra farmers lament

The investments of farmers at Mmofra, a cocoa growing community in the Amenfi West District of the Western Region, are going to waste due...

Niche partners Zotter to feed basic school children with chocolate drinks

Niche Cocoa Industry, Ghana’s top privately owned cocoa processing firm, has fed pupils of Aponoapono M/A basic school with cocoa beverages to encourage local...

Ghana Cedi is the world’s worst performing currency against dollar

Ghana’s cedi slumped to the world’s worst-performing currency to the dollar as wait-and-see investors continued to squeeze foreign capital into the west African country...

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