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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
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Outline
• Background and mission of COCOBOD
• Subsidiaries
• Functions
• Overall trends
• Opportunities/sustainability
• Other factors
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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
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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
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COCOBOD subsidiaries
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Responsible for
production and
distribution of the
best quality planting
materials to farmers
The Seed Production
Unit
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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
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• Responsible for
CSSVD activities,
cocoa extension
and cocoa
rehabilitation
Functions of Cocoa
Swollen Shoot Virus
Disease Control Unit
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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)
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• Responsible for
marketing and
shipment of cocoa
to local and
overseas buyers
The Cocoa Marketing
Company
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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
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Government/COCOBOD intervention
• Payment of realistic prices
• Input supply (CODAPEC and Hi-Tech)
• Cocoa rehabilitation
• Regulation of activities of licensed buying companies
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Input supply
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Production
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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.)
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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)
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The way forward
• There a 10-year Cocoa Sector Development Strategy document being finalized
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Thank you