Perennial challenges in the release of seed funds by COCOBOD provide fertile grounds for the smuggling and diversion of cocoa beans to foreign countries.
Farmer organization, Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), is partnering with Ritter Sport to support its farmer groups in the Western South cocoa region with additional livelihood interventions for sustainable cocoa production.
As part of its efforts to help address poverty among cocoa growing communities, farmers and households in the country, Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA), a farmer organisation, in partnership with Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co KG, Fuchs & Hoffmann and Ascot Amsterdam, has supported its farmer groups in the Western South Cocoa region with additional livelihood intervention initiatives.