A contributing cause to the rise in cocoa smuggling into neighboring countries, according to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), is Ghana’s comparatively low cocoa prices. The government has suffered enormous financial losses as a result of this predicament, and cocoa growers are now in a desperate condition. It’s serious. We were worried about the potential for smuggling at the start of the year. People crossing international boundaries to trade cocoa is extremely prevalent. According to…