Light crop cocoa season purchases start on June 30

Accra, June 21, GNA - The Ghana Cocoa Board on Wednesday announced that purchase for the 2006 light crop season would start on Friday June 30 2006.

A statement signed by Mr Isaac Osei, Chief Executive of Cocoa Board, said the producer price to be paid at all buying centres would be two hundred and seventy thousand cedis (=A2 270,000.00) per load of 30 kilograms for grade one and two cocoa beans naked ex-scale or five hundred and sixty-two thousand cedis (=A2562,500.00) per bag of 64 kilograms gross.

A tonne of 16 bags would be sold at nine million cedis.