Consume locally manufactured cocoa products …Ghanaians told ahead of 2024 National Chocolate Week Celebrations

Mr Ray Ankrah

The Ghana Tourism Author­ity (GTA) in collaboration with COCOBOD and Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) will begin this year’s National Choc­olate Week celebrations today with a series of activities lined up to commemorate it.

Under the theme ‘Eat Choc­olate, Stay Healthy, Grow Ghana,’ the celebration would be held at the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange (Accra Mall) with the exhibition of variety of chocolate products.

It would be a five-day event to end on February 14 (Valentine’s Day).

Dubbed ‘Explore Ghana, Eat Chocolate,’ there would be enough locally manufactured chocolate for all, according to the organisers.

Speaking at the launch of the celebrations, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Tourism Board, Mr Akwasi Agyemang, assured that this year’s celebration would be used to showcase amazing products from Cocoa with the call on Ghanaians to patronise Ghanaian chocolates.

“This year’s celebration would be used to appreciate the ex­cellent works of Cocoa farmers across the length and breadth of the country,” he stated.

For his part, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the COCO­BOD, Mr Ray Ankrah, said the annual celebration was to high­light the consumption of locally cocoa-manufactured products.

He called on Ghanaians to embrace chocolates made from Ghana’s cocoa to generate reve­nue for developmental projects across the country.

Mr. Ankrah also announced that the consumption rate of chocolate had increased from 21 percent to 40 per cent due to hard work by the management of COCOBOD over the years.

 By Michael D. Abayateye