Bad weather, failed government policies and a fast-spreading virus are reducing output from the world’s top cocoa-growing ...

Cocoa grindings in Europe and Asia fell in the last three months of 2024, the strongest signal yet that chocolate makers are ...

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 ...

Domestic Challenges The domestic market has faced funding issues, with inefficiencies at the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) cited as a major factor. In 2024, COCOBOD struggled to raise its annual ...

Cocoa purchases in Ghana slumped in December due to election-related payment delays from the state marketing board and squeezed exporter financing, farmers and buyers, told Reuters. They were of ...

Cocoa found support after Ghana's Cocoa Board (Cocobod) on August 20 cut its 2024/25 Ghana cocoa production estimate to 650,000 MT from a June forecast of 700,000 MT. Due to bad weather and crop ...

ABIDJAN: Ghana’s graded and sealed (G&S) cocoa purchases since the start of the harvest on Sept. 11 had reached 366,075 metric tons by Dec. 12, up 57.7% from the same period of the previous ...

“If we have that drop, are we really going to have enough cocoa to fulfill the old contracts and the new contracts that’ve been forward sold?” Both Ivory Coast and Ghana are still grappling ...

Ghana, the world's number two cocoa producer, has raised the fixed farmgate price paid to cocoa farmers for the second time this 2024/25 season 'to help boost farmers' incomes', President Nana ...

Cocoa found support after Ghana's Cocoa Board (Cocobod) on August 20 cut its 2024/25 Ghana cocoa production estimate to 650,000 MT from a June forecast of 700,000 MT. Due to bad weather and crop ...

7, a month after winning election His party also has majority in parliament ACCRA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Ghana's president-elect, John Dramani Mahama, has pledged to revamp the cocoa sector and ...