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The first attempt to regulate market value and production was in 1947 through the Ghana Marketing Board, which dissolved in 1979 and was reconciled into Ghana Cocoa Board also called COCOBOD [9]. The Ghana Marketing Board was established by ordinance in 1947 with the sum of 27 million Ghanaian Cedi as its initial working capital. In 1979, this ...
Postal codes were adopted in Ghana on 18 October 2017, following the launch of the National Digital Address System. [1] [2] As a joint venture between Ghana Post (with support from the Government of Ghana]) and Vokacom Ltd as GhanaPost GPS, the Digital Address System assigned postal codes and unique addresses to every square in Ghana.
The Ghanaian government has taken a number of countermeasures to prevent and stop cocoa smuggling in the country. COCOBOD's National Anti-Cocoa Smuggling Task Force is responsible for apprehending cocoa smugglers in Ghana. [14] Individuals found guilty of cocoa smuggling face a minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of ten. [12]
Produce Buying Company is one of the biggest dealers in cocoa, sheanut and other cash crop in the West Africa sub-region. [5]Produce Buying Company purchases high quality cocoa beans/sheanuts from farmers and prepares, [5] stores them in purpose-built sheds at village/society level and ensures prompt delivery of the graded and sealed stocks to designated Take Over Centers collection points in ...
Cocoa beans and cocoa harvest processing. Ghana's cocoa production grew an average of 16 per cent between 2000 and 2003. [18] Cocoa has a long production cycle, far longer than many other tropical crops, and new hybrid varieties need over five years to come into production, and a further 10 to 15 years for the tree to reach its full bearing potential.
He is a Research fellow and a lecturer. [3] He was a lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and a research fellow. He was a researcher with the Institute of Land Management and Development ILMAD and did extensive work on land and cocoa.
Opuni was alleged to have been involved in a number of corruption charges including causing financial loss to Ghana. [6] Attorney-General of Ghana, Gloria Akuffo stated that the former COCOBOD CEO Dr. Stephen Opuni could face a 25 years sentence if found guilty.
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