Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire plan 21% hike on farm gate cocoa prices
19 September 2020 |
7:00 am
Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire plan to raise the price farmers get paid for cocoa by about 21 per cent. Both countries account for over 60 per cent of the global production of the cocoa bean. Chike Nwagwu, CEO of Novus Agro, joins CNBC Africa’s Esther Awoniyi for more.
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