COCOBOD CEO Urges A Bridge Of Gap Between Academia And Industry Through Research

The Ghana Cocoa Board — COCOBOD’s Chief Executive Officer, Hon Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has charged Ghanaian universities to bridge the gap between academia and industry through timely and thorough research.

The seasoned industry player made the call when the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast led a delegation to pay a courtesy call, to discuss ways of working together to augment feats attained in the cocoa industry and find solutions to its bottlenecks.

About COCOBOD:

The Ghana Cocoa Board is a Ghanaian government-controlled institution that fixes the buying price for cocoa in Ghana. Farmers are protected from the volatile prices on the world market through the price-fixing.