naturfoods™ - ghana pledges sustainable cocoa push - report

In a recent post at Nutra Ingredients Europe it reports that “the Ghanaian cocoa board is planning to significantly step up cocoa production in the country over the next three years in a nationwide shake-up of how the crop is farmed, according to press reports.

Board deputy chief executive Charles Bernard Ntim said that a new program of crop husbandry schemes was being implemented in a move expected to lift output to 1m tonnes, the Dow Jones Newswires service reported Friday.

Some leading confectioners, particularly those operating in Europe and the US, are particularly reliant on cocoa coming from Ghana and other African producers, as worldwide supply of the crop struggles to meet demand. “

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