Top cocoa grower Ivory Coast’s upcoming mid-crop is expected to be smaller this year following unfavorable weather, ...

Cocoa production in Ivory Coast in the 2024/25 season is on course to remain around last season's disappointing level after adverse weather and crop conditions continued, the country's agriculture ...

Ivory Coast's customs have seized around 2,000 metric tons of falsely declared cocoa beans worth around $19 million at its ...

Poor harvests in recent years in Ghana and the Ivory Coast have reduced the supply of cocoa, in turn making it more expensive ...

Concern about slowing Ivory Coast cocoa exports is a supportive factor ... Demand concerns are also weighing on cocoa prices. Executives from chocolate makers Hershey and Mondelez recently ...

Cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, is usually smuggled over Ivory Coast's western border to Guinea and Liberia where traffickers pay above the local farmgate price for the commodity.

A sharp fall in output in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest supplier of the chocolate ingredient, and number two producer Ghana in 2023/24 triggered a surge in international prices to record highs ...

A farmer holds cocoa beans while he is drying them at a village in Sinfra, Ivory Coast April 29, 2023. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo PARIS, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Cocoa production in Ivory Coast in ...