Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are disrupting the crop, affecting both the quantity and quality of beans — and ...
with leaves turning yellow and the cherelles (cocoa pods) withering. Concern that the global cocoa deficit could widen is bullish for prices. On January 24, the International Cocoa Organization ...
GhanaWeb published an article revealing that Ghana's first cocoa seeds were not swallowed by Tetteh Quarshie. This discovery was made after GhanaWeb's People and Places team visited Tetteh Quarshie’s ...
Currently, salaried workers begin to pay 35 per cent (the highest tax level) only on income after GHc 50,000. Cocoa farmers are, thus, one of the most highly taxed actors in the Ghanaian economy.