Cocoa

Rewe Group To Offer Living Income Premium To Cocoa Farmers

Germany's Rewe Group has announced plans to launch a project that offers a Living Income Differential (LID) to cocoa farmers in West Africa, in addition to...

Ghana Sells 200,000 Tonnes Of Cocoa With Farmer Premium

Ghana, the world's number two cocoa producer, has sold nearly 200,000 tonnes of cocoa for the 2020/21 season, with prices including a new premium to suppor...

Barry Callebaut Sticks To Sales Growth Target Despite Weak Quarter

Barry Callebaut, which makes chocolate and cocoa products for firms like Nestlé and Unilever, stuck to a sales volume growth target of 4% to 6% over...

Ivory Coast, Ghana Lift Threat To Cocoa Sustainability Schemes

Top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana said on Wednesday that chocolate makers would continue for now to be allowed to run sustainability schemes in the...

Heavy Rains In Ivory Coast Threaten Cocoa Crop

Unusually heavy rain last week in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa growing regions has disturbed the development of the October-to-March main cro...

Large Cocoa Bean Stockpiles In Ivory Coast Raise Quality Concerns

Cocoa buyers have been storing large quantities of cocoa beans in the bush for the past six weeks as they wait for a higher farmgate price, a move exporter...

Ivory Coast 2019/20 Cocoa Main Crop Seen In Line With Last Season: Poll

Ivory Coast's 2019/20 cocoa main crop is expected to be between 1.65 million and 1.7 million tonnes, broadly in line with the 1.66 million tonnes in the pr...

Ivory Coast Cocoa Harvest Picks Up Ahead Of Main Crop Season: Farmers

Cocoa harvesting has picked up in Ivory Coast as rains continue ahead of the October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday. Rains were below averag...