ACCRA, July 14 (Reuters) - Ghana's finance ministry has invited eligible holders to exchange $809.9 million in domestic U.S. dollar bonds for a package of new bonds, it said on Friday.

The country's cocoa board launched a debt securities exchange programme on the terms of the government's exchange memorandum, under which it is inviting holders of its short-term debt securities to voluntarily offer to exchange their Cocoa Bills for longer-term debt securities. (Reporting by Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie; Writing by Sofia Christensen; editing by Jonathan Oatis)