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The Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana (LICOBAG) has called on the government to urgently secure a financing facility to pay for an estimated 300,000 metric tonnes of cocoa in a phased manner between now and September.<\/p>\n
It warned that failure to do so could lead to the collapse of the sector.<\/p>\n
The association said any funds secured for cocoa purchases must be ring-fenced strictly for that purpose, stressing that the core mandate of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) was the purchase of cocoa…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Licensed Cocoa Buyers Association of Ghana (LICOBAG) has called on the government to urgently secure a financing facility to pay for an estimated 300,000 metric tonnes of cocoa in a phased manner between now and September. It warned that failure to do so could lead to the collapse of the sector. The association said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,16564,3029,6861,6190,7082,6141,4508,4509,257,13528,254],"class_list":["post-223245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buying","tag-cocoa","tag-debt","tag-delays","tag-firms","tag-funding","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-pushing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/223245","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=223245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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