The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has signed a Declaration of Intent to cooperate with Apex Brasil and the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to strengthen bilateral collaboration in the cocoa sector.
The signing took place during a high-level meeting at Cocoa House in Accra as part of a Brazilian Presidential Mission to Africa.
The Brazilian delegation, led by Her Excellency Marirana Madeira - Brazilian Ambassador to Ghana, officials from Apex Brasil and the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, engaged COCOBOD's Acting Chief Executive and his management team in discussions on enhancing technical and economic cooperation between the two nations.
The discussions focused on leveraging Brazilian technology to improve cocoa productivity, exchanging best practices in disease management, and fostering research collaboration between Brazil's cocoa sector and the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG).
