Month: April 2021

AfricaLive: Please tell readers a bit about the DNA of Federated Commodities, and your inspiration for operating in the agricultural sector? Hajia Maria Adamu: Federated Commodities was incorporated in March 1996 just four years after the government decided to privatise the industry. We used to have PBC as the sole buyer before the government privatised things to […]

Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCo), in partnership with Walter Matter and Valrhona SA, has constructed a six-unit classroom block with toilet facilities and a mechanised bore-hole for the Atwereboanda M/A Junior High School in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality of the Western Region, at a total cost of GH¢8885,882. “FEDCo is a Licenced Cocoa Buying Company, and […]

FEDCO and partners support Yirase community with a 6 unit Class Room Block

Recent studies criticising the global chocolate industry for exploitative practices have concerned ethical consumers. Cocoa farmers only earn about 6% of the chocolate industry’s total revenues. Leading chocolate companies have since 2001 made pledges to end widespread abusive labour practices, but continue to fall short. In Ghana, local firm Federated Commodities has shown it is only […]