Ghana, the world’s number two cocoa producer, has missed out on nearly $1 billion in export earnings due to a steep decline in global cocoa prices, the CEO of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) said on Monday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n “In Ghana, we have has lost close to $1 billion in export earnings,” Joseph Boahen Aidoo told a news conference following an International Cocoa Organization meeting in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n Cocoa futures in New York and London have fallen by roughly a third since last year and hit fresh multi-year lows last week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana loses nearly $1 bln in export earnings due to cocoa prices Ghana, the world’s number two cocoa producer, has missed out on nearly $1 billion in export earnings due to a steep decline in global cocoa prices, the CEO of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) said on Monday. “In Ghana, we have has lost close …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-te-public"],"yoast_head":"\n