Ivory Coast expects to record one of the worst mid-crop cocoa harvests of the last 15 years this season with production seen ...

IVORY COAST expects to record one of the worst mid-crop cocoa harvests of the last 15 years this season with production seen no higher than 300,000 metric tons (MT) compared with a yearly average of ...

The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling ...

Rains were scarce in most of top grower Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions last week and more are needed to boost the ...

ABIDJAN, Dec 30 (Reuters) - No rain fell last week in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions and farmers ... the mid-crop," said Faustin Konan, who farms near Daloa, where no rain fell last ...

That’s where people like Konan, who helps monitor cocoa farm data in Ivory Coast for the Rainforest Alliance, a nonprofit based in New York and Amsterdam, and his smartphone come in. Such ...

Women do about 70% of the work on Ivory Coast cacao farms and receive only about 20% ... “It’s really hard being a female cocoa farmer,” says farmer Salimata Diakite in Dramanekro village.

Cocoa production in Ivory Coast dropped 22% during the 12-month ... and plant new ones to increase production, especially as farms are ravaged by diseases. Like other cocoa farmers, Mensah has ...

Cocoa was the best performing commodity in 2024, outpacing even bitcon, as prices surged 132 percent, hitting a record high of ...

The steep hike in global cocoa prices will likely weigh on Philippine chocolatiers and eventually trickle into the cost of the sweet treat.  BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions, recently reported that the ...