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A Cashew expert with the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), Jim Fitzpatrick, has called on local cashew stakeholders to focus on improving food safety and quality to attract international consumers.  According to him, ensuring food...

A two-day cashew pricing workshop to propose a pricing model for cashew in Ghana has started in Accra on Monday.

 

The workshop by the pricing committee of the Cashew Council Ghana (CCG), an extension...

A Market Information Systems (MIS) expert with the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), Jim Fitzpatrick, has called on African governments to prioritize developing a cashew sector that adds value to itself.

 

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Ghana’s Cashew sector is not as developed as its cocoa sector. For over seven decades, as the world’s second, and at some point leading, producer of cocoa, Ghana has benefited enormously from her cocoa sector. All these years, the cocoa sector has been the most well-organized, and properly regulated subsector of the Agricultural industry, with the Ghana Cocoa Board, established in 1947 to regulate the sector, playing a crucial role in...

The Cashew Council Ghana (CCG) has debunked claims that it is making moves to dictate prices of cashew by implementing a pricing regime.

 

Barely two weeks since its launch in Techiman, there are claims in...

Stakeholders of Ghana’s cashew sector have commended the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) for their enormous support and contribution towards the growth and development of the sector.

 

According to them, the...

The tree crops industry has become one of the industries with great economic potentials in Ghana’s Agricultural sector. Beyond the about USD16 billion Ghana’s Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Afriyie Akoto, estimates the country will be earning from the industry in annual incomes from 2028, it contributes significantly to job creation and household income. In the cashew subsector, the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) estimates that...

Stakeholders of the cashew sector have on Thursday 15th October 2020, launched the Cashew Council Ghana (CCG), with support of the African Cashew Alliance (ACA) to become the apex body of the Ghanaian cashew sector, in Techiman.

 

 The...

The Managing Director of the African Cashew Alliance (ACA), Ernest Mintah, has expressed confidence in the newly established Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) and the Cashew Council Ghana (CCG) to harness the potentials of the cashew sector.

 

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Production, processing, and trading of cashew and five other tree crops will now be regulated and coordinated by the Ghana Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA).  This follows the official inauguration of the Authority by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo on Tuesday, 29th September 2020 in Kumasi.

 

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