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National Chocolate Day gives local candy makers reason to celebrate
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• Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, speaking at the launch of the National Cocoa Week. Picture: NII MARTEY M. BOTCHWAY
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today join the national campaign for increased consumption of cocoa products.
The President is expected to release a pre-recorded video in which he is featured sharing his involvement with chocolate and other cocoa products and his appeal to the public to consume cocoa products for health and vitality.
The Public Affairs Manager of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr Fiifi Boafo, said President Akufo-Addo’s message is part of special campaign messages from the country’s top leaders encouraging the public to consume more cocoa-sourced products.
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The National Chocolate Day which was instituted in 2005 to coincide with Valentine’s Day which is commemorated on 14th February every year has become a memorable day in the Ghanaian calendar.
This day is mostly celebrated in the urban centres whilst the cocoa farmers who toiled to produce the cocoa beans for the chocolate are left out of the celebrations.
In view of this, the Executive Members of the Alumni Association of the University of Ghana Business School (UGBS) embarked on a trip to Kwahu Bepong in the Eastern Region of Ghana to celebrate the “Chocolate Day” with cocoa farmers of the town.
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Ghana is the second largest producer of cocoa in the world but cannot be found in the league of 50 top cocoa consuming countries.
The country consumes about 0.53 kilograms (KG) of cocoa-sourced products every year and that is a drop in the ocean when compared to countries such as Switzerland, Australia, Germany, Ireland and Great Britain where an average of eight KG of the products are consumed every year.
When it comes to the golden pod, the country produces what it hardly eats and that is a blow, given the nutritional and health benefits of cocoa.
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