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Cocobod spokesperson said the increase had been introduced with immediate effect.

Ghana, the world’s number two cocoa producer, has raised the fixed farmgate price paid to cocoa farmers for the second time this 2024/25 season to help boost farmers’ incomes, President Nana Akufo-Addo said.

A cocoa marketing board, The authorities have been seeking to increase farmers’ incomes and deter smuggling, which led to Ghana losing more than a third of its cocoa output for 2023/24, according to Cocobod officials. Akufo-Addo also said he had directed Cocobod to provide scholarships to cocoa farmers’ children in tertiary education.

 

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