2023 light cocoa season opens

The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says the purchases for the Light Crop cocoa season will commence on Friday, June 16, 2023.

In a news brief, Cocobod said the producer price to be paid at all buying centres would be GH?384 per load of 30 kilograms for Grade I and II cocoa beans naked ex-scale or GH? 800 per bag of 64 kilograms gross.

‘A tonne of 16 bags is GH?12,800,’ it said.

Purchases for the main crop season ended on Thursday, May 25, 2023, with returns on declared purchases allowed till June 1, 2023.

Source: Ghana News Agency