Quality chocolate costs more for reasons that start on the farm but then build through labor, climate stress, and global ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cocoa powder is an essential baking ingredient. Our brownies, cakes and cookies would be nothing without it. The thing is, though, ...

LONDON/ACCRA — Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around ...

Chocolate prices will likely climb even higher as West African cocoa processing plants can no longer afford to buy the bean. According to Reuters, state-owned Transcao, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest ...

The Minister for Finance Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has announced a new policy aimed at significantly increasing the local ...

The Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has welcomed the government’s renewed policy direction aimed at increasing the local processing of cocoa before export ...

The Minister for Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, alongside the Minister for Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has met with cocoa processors and key stakeholders in the cocoa ...

By Godwill Arthur-Mensah/Elsie Appiah-Osei Accra, Feb. 19, GNA — The government is set to reform the country’s cocoa sector with measures aimed at promoting domestic processing, improving financial ...

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