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Cocoa Sector
Overview
Dr. Gilbert Anim-Kwapong
Dr. Richard Adu-Acheampong
First Annual Platform meeting: ‘inclusive value chain
collaboration: what scope for innovation
13 August 2015, Accra Ghana
Outline
• Background and mission of COCOBOD
• Subsidiaries
• Functions
• Overall trends
• Opportunities/sustainability
• Other factors
Background
• Ghana is the world’s second largest producer of cocoa
• The sector is regulated by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD)
• COCOBOD was established in 1947
• Ministerial responsibility is exercised by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
• Production reached an all time high of one million tonnes in 2010/2011 season
Mission To encourage and
facilitate the
production,
processing and
marketing of
premium quality
cocoa, coffee and
sheanut in all forms
in the most efficient
and cost effective
manner
COCOBOD subsidiaries
Responsible for
production and
distribution of the
best quality planting
materials to farmers
The Seed Production
Unit
Functions of Cocoa Research Institute
Responsible for research
and linkage with extension
with the view to providing
cocoa farmers with a
package of husbandry
practices for realizing
optimal yields
Development of cocoa by-
products for
commercialization
• Responsible for
CSSVD activities,
cocoa extension
and cocoa
rehabilitation
Functions of Cocoa
Swollen Shoot Virus
Disease Control Unit
FUNCTIONS OF QUALITY CONTROL COMPANY LTD
Responsible for grading and
sealing and dis-infestation of
scheduled crops of
COCOBOD (i.e. cocoa, coffee
shea nuts)
• Responsible for
marketing and
shipment of cocoa
to local and
overseas buyers
The Cocoa Marketing
Company
Trends/constraints
• Costs are going up across the sector (e.g. labour etc.) partly because of alternative livelihoods (e.g. galamsey etc.)
• Dwindling forests
• Land degradation by surface mining
• Land tenure arrangements
• Incidence of pests and diseases
• Declining soil fertility and drought
• Ageing farmer and tree population
Government/COCOBOD intervention
• Payment of realistic prices
• Input supply (CODAPEC and Hi-Tech)
• Cocoa rehabilitation
• Regulation of activities of licensed buying companies
Input supply
Production
Opportunities/Sustainability
• Rolling up of programmes to encourage the youth in cocoa cultivation
• Short and long-term investment in scholarship, cocoa roads, community housing, water, solar lighting and schools
• Keeping people safe and healthy (e.g. agrochemicals, promotion of cocoa consumption etc.)
Sustainability contd.
• Reducing climate change impacts (aligning with REDD+ initiatives)
• Enhancing biodiversity • Land use planning for forest conservation • Promotion of certification and fair trade • Employment creation through the creation of
spraying teams • Creation of a national cocoa coordination
platform involving value chain actors (public, private sector partnership)
The way forward
• There a 10-year Cocoa Sector Development Strategy document being finalized
Thank you
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