Cocoa farmers in Ghana are expecting a bumper harvest in the upcoming 2025/2026 season. This optimism follows improved flowering and pod development, marking a recovery from the challenges farmers ...

Cocoa prices settled at $8.796 per ton during the mid-week trading session in the US futures market, as Nigeria increasingly ...

Cocoa farmers are expecting a bumper harvest for the upcoming 2025/26 season, buoyed by improved flowering and pod development ...

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Ghana reduces 2024/2025 cocoa forecast to a maximum of 600,000 tons • Structural issues continue to affect output, including disease and climate change • Global cocoa prices remain under pressure, ...

Big focus has been given to cocoa, which has more recently suffered crop shortages due to ongoing adverse weather events. This has led to prices surging to near 400% in the last year. “Cocoa ...

Another successful model is the arecanut + black pepper + cocoa + banana system. It provides a steady income throughout the year, with net returns reaching Rs 4.4 to Rs 10 lakh per hectare annually.

The Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Dr Randy Abbey, has noted that Ghana is likely to miss the cocoa production target in the 2024/2025 crop season.