Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and other climate impacts are throttling cocoa production and driving up chocolate prices.

Mr William Kwaku Serebour Prempeh, Ashanti Regional Manager of COCOBOD has urged cocoa farmers to help maintain ...

Extreme temperatures hit cocoa supplies as vulnerable farmers struggle to adapt to climate impacts in time for Valentine's ...

Dimitra is offering AI-driven apps and IoT-based sensors to cocoa farmers to track the conditions of the crop.

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports ...

By Samuel Lartey(Prof)[email protected], the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, is grappling with a deepening crisis in its cocoa industry. In 2024, cocoa export earnings plummeted to $1.

A farmer whose cocoa farm was used as a burial site for an illegal miner by police officers from the Mpohor District Police Command is demanding the immediate exhumation of the remains from his farm.

“We expect the new government to restore hope and confidence in the cocoa economy and also improve production for wealth creation. We have suffered over the years and this should be a lesson to the ...

Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday, a cross-section of cocoa farmers confirmed that the 2024 farming season was the most profitable of their ...

In times past, we used to provide free fertilisers for our cocoa farmers. We need to get back to that policy so they can save some money which will help increase their profit margin,” he stated.

which incentivized sustainable cocoa farming in the past. Illegal mining, known locally as galamsey, has long posed a serious threat to Ghana’s water bodies and forest reserves. The previous ...

March ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is down -107 (-0.92%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is down -131 (-1.43%). Cocoa prices today dropped to 1-week lows as weekend rains in the Ivory Coast ...