Cocoa light Crop Season for 2020/2021 has been closed by the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), effective today, 3rd September 2021.
The Board had recorded about 1.5 million tonnes of production, beating the previous record of 1.024 million metric tonnes in the 2010/ 2011 crop season.
Ghana Cocoa Board has introduced new electronic weighing machines scales to be used by Licensed Buying Companies for purchases of cocoa from October 1, 2021.
COCOBOD had already secured 40,000 pieces of the new weighing scale machines to be purchased by the Licensed Buying Companies.
Chief Executive Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, said based on research with the Ghana Standard Authority, the new electronic weighing scales cannot be tampered with to protect the farmers.
“This issue of weighing and cheating cocoa farmers has created a lot of problems, mistrust, and disagreement in the cocoa industry. So, we have these weighing scales that can rely on both solar and electricity so that it can work in remote places,” he said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
