Niche Cocoa Industry Gives Organic Cocoa Farmers A Tour Of Their Facility In Tema

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NICHE COCOA PROCESSING FACILITY
NICHE COCOA PROCESSING FACILITY

As part of an award scheme to honour organic cocoa famers in Ghana, Niche Cocoa Industry Limited has played host to a group of organic cocoa farmers at their facility in Tema. The tour is to enable them appreciate the process their cocoa beans go through before it becomes edible.

Addressing the Aponoapono Biakoye Organic Cocoa Farmers Association from the Suhum District, the General Manager in charge of Quality, Research & Development and Sourcing, Mr Paul Ayeh praised the group for working hard to help provide jobs and food for the country and industry.

?The essence of today?s tour by the farmers is to expose to them exactly what their input does to us as an industry. These are farmers who are engaged in the production of organic cocoa, fair trade cocoa who have won awards for their meritorious service in the industry and we thought it wise to let them have a feel of what their cocoa is used for,?? Mr Ayeh explained.

For us as a company we are in the position to process organic cocoa and as we buy from them, it serves as an incentive for them to build their capacity and increase their input, he added.

On his part, the Project Supervisor of Agro Eco (Partners In Organic Growth) who organized the group of farmers, Mr Stephen Ashia, was impressed about the tour and mentioned that, it is a way to motivate farmers to produce more and be able to take care of their families.

He however expressed worry over key challenges farmers face in getting credit and inputs to enhance their farming activities and appealed to all stakeholders to ensure that these challenges become a thing of the past.

At a reception organized in their honour, Jacob Korvor, the Secretary of the association and a cocoa farmer was excited and praised the Niche Cocoa for enlightening their understanding of the industry through the tour.

Niche Cocoa Industry Limited which recently received ISO 22000:2005 certification is a local processing company that processes cocoa into cocoa liquor and also has organic processing certificate to process organic cocoa for the international market. Niche Cocoa is a company wholly owned by Ghanaians and situated in the Tema Free Zones enclave.

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