The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) will, by the end of this year, introduce digital scales in the weighing of cocoa beans as part of measures to ensure standardisation in the local cocoa industry.
The move is also to curtail the perception that purchasing clerks adjusted scales to short-change cocoa farmers.
The Deputy Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Dr Emmanuel A. Opoku, who made this known, said already the board had purchased a number of digital scales which were being tested by the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) before they were deployed into the field.
