{"id":1213854,"date":"2022-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/new-rule-in-europe-could-soon-make-ghanaian-cocoa-coffee-unexportable-to-many-intl-markets-kon\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:00:00","slug":"new-rule-in-europe-could-soon-make-ghanaian-cocoa-coffee-unexportable-to-many-intl-markets-kon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/30\/new-rule-in-europe-could-soon-make-ghanaian-cocoa-coffee-unexportable-to-many-intl-markets-kon\/","title":{"rendered":"New rule in Europe could soon make Ghanaian cocoa, coffee unexportable to many int&#8217;l markets &#8211; KON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"390\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Kojo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kojo-696x390.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"390\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kojo-696x390.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kojo\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Information Minister Kojo Oppong has revealed that the Ghana Embassy in Belgium under the leadership of Ambassador Sena Boateng, has brought to the attention of the Government of Ghana that in Europe, there is a new legislation that could soon make Ghanaian cocoa and coffee unexportable to many international markets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Europe, there is a new legislation that could soon make Ghanaian cocoa &#038; coffee unexportable to many International markets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week in Brussels, I chaired a 2 day forum on \u201dthe future of Ghanaian cocoa and coffee value chains in the face of this new EU legislation\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TeLD18qt9n\">pic.twitter.com\/TeLD18qt9n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (@konkrumah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/konkrumah\/status\/1575775885302460417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Oppong Nkrumah further indicated that the Embassy has also commenced work on realigning Ghanaian and European interests in cocoa and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire need to act quickly to secure the industry while meeting the interests of European markets else millions of households and our entire economies could be significantly affected soon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Ghana Embassy in Belgium under the leadership of Ambassador Sena Boateng has moved swiftly to bring this to the attention of the Government of Ghana. It has also commenced work on realigning Ghanaian and European interests in cocoa and coffee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wb2lTbw6kP\">pic.twitter.com\/wb2lTbw6kP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (@konkrumah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/konkrumah\/status\/1575775897130782720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, this work has started. Our task is to see it through,\u201d the Ofoase Ayirebi lawmaker tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week in Brussels, I chaired a 2 day forum on \u201dthe future of Ghanaian cocoa and coffee value chains in the face of this new EU legislation\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ghana and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire need to act quickly to secure the industry while meeting the interests of European markets else millions of households and our entire economies could be significantly affected soon. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, this work has started. Our task is to see it through. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jm8nyY9Ers\">pic.twitter.com\/jm8nyY9Ers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (@konkrumah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/konkrumah\/status\/1575775909746860032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Minister Kojo Oppong has revealed that the Ghana Embassy in Belgium under the leadership of Ambassador Sena Boateng, has brought to the attention of the Government of Ghana that in Europe, there is a new legislation that could soon make Ghanaian cocoa and coffee unexportable to many international markets. In Europe, there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[181,5617,6686,1750,5022,26633,5013,2243,26634],"class_list":["post-1213854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cocoa","tag-coffee","tag-europe","tag-ghanaian","tag-intl","tag-kon","tag-markets","tag-rule","tag-unexportable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}