{"id":708878,"date":"2019-09-24T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/cocobod-ceo-courts-european-chocolate-producers\/"},"modified":"2019-09-24T06:41:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T06:41:16","slug":"cocobod-ceo-courts-european-chocolate-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/24\/cocobod-ceo-courts-european-chocolate-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"COCOBOD CEO Courts European Chocolate Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joseph Boahen Aidoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

JOSEPH BOAHEN Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has called on European chocolate producers to consider a decent income for cocoa farmers in order to stimulate the cocoa industry globally.<\/p>\n

Mr Boahene Aidoo, who was addressing a meeting of European Chocolate makers in Lisbon, Portugal, on the introduction of the Living Income Differential (LID), a key component of the new cocoa price mechanism to be implemented by Ghana and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, starting with the 2020\/2021 crop season, said if cocoa farmers are not remunerated well, that would spell the demise of the industry.<\/p>\n

Cocoa farmers still vulnerable<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to him, even though other aspects of the intranational cocoa value chain have over the decades been strengthened, reformed and made more sophisticated, farmers have always remained vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cCocoa farmers are vulnerable to market fluctuations which weaken their returns and increase their production risks. In fact, all of us will agree that the cocoa farmer in our part of the world, that is, in Ghana and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, is the fulcrum of the cocoa value chain, yet this farmer is also the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn various fora, including ICCO meetings, it became very clear to everybody that for us to have a sustainable and thriving cocoa industry, all of us will have to find a living income for the cocoa farmer. A decent income for the cocoa farmer and price is a major factor in determining this living income,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n

Farmers begin to abandon farms<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said farmers in Ghana and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire were already beginning to abandon cocoa farms for other cash crop farming.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, Ghana and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire had to take the bull by the horn and try and see how best we can get a price that will enable the farmer remain in operation. A price that will also keep the farmer and his household in good maintenance and also get the farmer the right margin from his\/her investment.\u201d<\/p>\n

New measures<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Living Income Differential (LID) of UD$400 per tonne will be applied to all categories of cocoa beans from Ghana and Cote d\u2019Ivoire starting from the 2020\/2021 crop season when the two countries begin to apply a new price mechanism for the sale of cocoa at US$2,600per tonne.<\/p>\n

As part of the roadmap for the implementation of the floor price mechanism, the two countries have agreed that farmers in both countries will be guaranteed a minimum price of 70% of the floor price of US$2,600 per tonne. This minimum producer price will be legislated in both countries.<\/p>\n

When the achieved average Gross FOB price at the end of the Cocoa Season is between the minimum price level of $2,600 and $2,900, farmers will be entitled to bonus payments.<\/p>\n

Stabilisation accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COCOBOD CEO said stabilisation fund accounts would be established under the cocoa initiative of both countries with provisions made in a charter \u2013 two accounts will be set up, one for each country, within a Secretariat in Accra, Ghana. Any extra value above US$3,000 of the Achieved Weighted Average, which is determined at the end of each fiscal year, would be placed in these accounts.<\/p>\n

This will support the Achieved Weighted Average if it falls below US$2,200, so that farmers can still be paid that $2,600 per tonne amount.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing this to ensure that our farmers remain in business and then also to be able to manage their farms well and responsibly, so that, we all meet the objective of having a sustainable cocoa industry,\u201d he assured the gathering of European chocolate makers.<\/p>\n

Additionally, he charged them to explore emerging markets and introduce innovative products in order to expand international consumption.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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