Cocoa’s OPEC moment puts market on track for boom and bust
The world’s two biggest cocoa producers are taking unprecedented steps to exert more control on the market in a bid to help farmers.
Ivory Coast to keep cocoa output in check under new price plan
Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator said it will seek to maintain output of the beans at current levels even as the country and neighboring
Cocoa price regulation: Ghana, Ivory Coast start next season
Ghana and Ivory Coast have acceded to coordinate the announcement of bean prices with the opening of cocoa season in their bid to
Ivory Coast to Start Destroying Cocoa Trees in Forests
Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer is said to commence the destruction of cocoa crops grown in protected areas as seeks to
Cocoa exporters in Ivory Coast demand refund on deficit supply
Temitayo Ayetoto, with agency… Exporters of cocoa commodity in Ivory Coast are demanding that the industry regulator returns the
Ivory Coast loses 125,000 tons of cocoa to smuggling
Ivory Coast lost an estimated 125,000 metric tons of cocoa this season through the smuggling of beans to neighboring countries where
Ghana delays start of cocoa season as it awaits loan funds
Ghana will delay the start of the new cocoa season as it waits for the proceeds of a $1.3 billion syndicated loan to pay farmers,
Cocoa prices crashed, smugglers still making money
Much of Jamilatu Mohammed’s harvest of cocoa beans is sitting in a storage shed near her dilapidated mud house along Ghana’s western
Ivory Coast weighs cocoa tax cuts to lift farmer pay
Ivory Coast is considering cutting taxes on buying and exporting of cocoa to allow for an increase in the minimum price paid to
Ivory Coast fears a fifth of cocoa crop may be lost to smuggling on farmers’ pay discrepancy with neighbor, Ghana
Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator has forecast that the nation may lose a fifth of its cocoa crop to smuggling during the next harvest if