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Ecuador Cocoa Forecast Cut to 230,000 Tons After Rains Hit Crops

Ecuador, the world’s biggest grower of flavoured beans used in fine chocolate, will probably lose about 15 per cent of this year’s cocoa crop a...

Cocoa Harvest Compounds Ghana’s Woes in Bitter Month for Bonds

The risk of the smallest cocoa harvest in five years is combining with power cuts and a weak oil price to cloud the prospects for Ghana’s debt, the s...

Nigeria’s Hot, Dry Weather Causes Underweight Midcrop Cocoa

A prolonged dry spell in Nigeria’s main cocoa-growing areas has caused a poor yield in the country’s midcrop, with most of the beans below the...

Cocoa Production to Trail Demand on Dry West African Soils

Speculators are adding to bullish cocoa wagers at the fastest pace in two years as dry weather threatens crops in parts of West Africa, the source of 70 pe...