Cash crop

Ghana will delay the start of the new cocoa season as it waits for the proceeds of a $1.3 billion...

The government of Nigeria and Rwanda have signed multimillion dollar deals with a Nigerian investor, the Blackpace Africa Group, in...

Much of Jamilatu Mohammed’s harvest of cocoa beans is sitting in a storage shed near her dilapidated mud house along...

Nigeria should see a bumper cocoa harvest in the coming season as late rains have helped boost pod production, the...

Cameroon is taking steps to encourage farmers to grow better quality cocoa after a deterioration in last year’s crop resulted...

One day, an avocado’s a buck-fifty. The next, it’s twice that. And this week, just days after a much-ballyhooed markdown at...

Ivory Coast is considering cutting taxes on buying and exporting of cocoa to allow for an increase in the minimum...

Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator has forecast that the nation may lose a fifth of its cocoa crop to smuggling during...

Cameroon has halved its levy on cocoa exports to boost revenues for farmers and exporters hit by a dive in...

Ghana has recorded its biggest cocoa harvest in six years, Bloomberg reports, after favourable weather conditions boosted output in the world’s...