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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra – CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo has announced that the ongoing rehabilitation of all areas which have been affected by the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease will increase cocoa production to 1.5 million tonnes in the medium term. “The cocoa industry has been plagued with the devastating impact of the...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – The venture will assume the contour of a trade and agri-finance package encompassing a $75 million soft merchandise finance facility to finance the group’s pre and post- shipment working capital requirements, with a special emphasis on export-oriented actions. It furthermore comprises a $75 million...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – Press Corporation Group Pension Fund’s Principal Officer, Bidronce Chiphaso, in a consultation on Thursday, November 11th, 2021 announced, the improvement mean a lot. He explained that their programmed withdrawal option is a strategy by which resigning from employees shall, in line with authorized...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – Dahiru Mangal Industries has approved a $600 million (about N246.3 billion) pact with China Sinoma International Engineering, to construct a three-million metric ton per annum cement plant with 50 megawatts (MW) of captive power plant in Kogi State, same State hosting Dangote’s Obajana Cement. The Chief...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- In hospitals, medics are inconvenienced they are fast trotting out of medical supplies, as swarms of worried family members Freetown at the gates, scanning lists and questioning passers-by to find out if their loved ones are inside the makeshift burns wards. On November 07th, 2021 last night; the death tol...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone – Ivory Coast’s cocoa board has allocated 161,000 tonnes of international contracts to local exporters this season, half as much as envisaged under a government decree to support local players, the regulator’s chief said on Friday. In May of 2021, the administration decreed that 20% of cocoa...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra GHANA – Scientists, entrepreneurs, institutional leaders and students from Africa and beyond met in Kigali, Rwanda and online for the second continental African Plant Breeders Association Conference (#APBAConf2021). Guided by the theme, “Accelerating Genetic Gains in Plant Breeding for Resilience and Transformative Food Systems and...