COCOBOD opens 2024 Light Crop season on June 21

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says the Light Crop Cocoa season purchase is expected to commence on Friday June 21, 2024.

In a brief statement signed by the Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, indicated that “producer price to be paid at all buying centers is Nine Hundred and Ninety-Three Ghana Cedis and Sixty Pesewas (GH¢993.60) per load of 30 kilograms for Grade I and II cocoa beans naked ex-scale or Two Thousand and Seventy Ghana Cedis (GH¢2,070.00) per bag of 64 kilograms gross.”

The cocoa regulator added that "a tonne of 16 bags is Thirty-Three Thousand, One Hundred and Twenty Ghana Cedis (GH¢33,120.00)."