{"id":179076,"date":"2024-08-23T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-relent-in-effort-to-locally-fund-cocoa-purchases\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T02:05:07","slug":"ghana-dont-relent-in-effort-to-locally-fund-cocoa-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-relent-in-effort-to-locally-fund-cocoa-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Don&#8217;t Relent in Effort to Locally Fund Cocoa Purchases!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">After 32 years of contracting a syndicated loan annually to purchase cocoa from farmers in the country, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says beginning from the 2024\/2025 cocoa season, it will finance the purchase of cocoa beans and its operations domestically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Over the past three decades, COCOBOD had been securing a syndicated loan each year, usually around August or September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Going for syndicated loans to buy cocoa from the farmers at a fixed price and protect them from changes in global prices&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408220416.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 years of contracting a syndicated loan annually to purchase cocoa from farmers in the country, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) says beginning from the 2024\/2025 cocoa season, it will finance the purchase of cocoa beans and its operations domestically. Over the past three decades, COCOBOD had been securing a syndicated loan each year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,3029,7207,9921,5111,4508,4509,12487,257,22073,49350,254],"class_list":["post-179076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cocoa","tag-dont","tag-effort","tag-fund","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-locally","tag-news","tag-purchases","tag-relent","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}