cocoa

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Togo and even the Philippines, traders of a new kind are collaborating with chocolate makers to find exceptional beans and set up responsible sectors that pay for planting machines better. Zoom, on Easter Monday, in the 5% of the cocoa market that accommodates the major manufacturers. This…

In Côte d'Ivoire, for a month now, cocoa exporters have stopped buying futures contracts for the next production season. They are asking for a discount on taxes and especially on the quality premium called the "country differential". Information revealed by Bloomberg Agency. It is an arm that is invisible to the public, but…

The world's main cocoa producer, Côte d'Ivoire and its neighbor Ghana and the world's second largest producer, promised final yr to lift the worth paid to growers by establishing, after session with the multinational chocolate corporations, a "Differential of First rate Earnings" of 400 In consequence, on 1 October, Côte d'Ivoire formally set the worth paid for crops at 1,000 CFA francs per kilogram of…

According to a report by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) Foundation, child labor increased by almost 20% in Côte d'Ivoire between mid-March and mid-May, when schools closed. More generally, the phenomenon has been on the rise for ten years, according to NGOs, but the Ivorian government wants to show its progress in the fight against child labor. as reported from Abidjan, Police said they had rescued eleven children and two youths who were working illegally in cocoa plantations in the southwestern part of the…

Farmers' reactions to the rise in the price of cocoa paid to Côte d'Ivoire producers are not uniform. While some are happy, others believe it is a first step. With our special correspondent in Yamossoukro, Stanislas Ndayishimiye The notice of increase in the price of cocoa paid to the producer in Ivory Coastranging from 825 to 1000 CFA francs per kilos, has made producers "very happy", estimates Jérôme Yao Kouakou, plants in Issia, in the midwestern Ivory Coast. Announced Thursday by President Alassane Ouattara, on…

Cocoa at 1000 CFA francs per Kilo and Côte d'Ivoire. One month before the expected date of the presidential election, Alassane Ouattara announces a purchase price for the farm gate for the cocoa bean, which has risen sharply. On the occasion of the launch of the 2020-2021 cocoa campaign, President Alassane Ouattara, who is currently campaigning for a third term, strongly opposed by the opposition, actually announced yesterday, Thursday in Yamoussoukro, the capital of Côte d'Ivoire, a purchase price for plants of 1000 CFA…

This Thursday, October 1, marked the launch of the Cocoa Campaign 2020-2021 in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. It was also this Thursday that the launch took place in Yamoussoukro of the National Cocoa and Chocolate Days, an annual meeting marking the start of the season. The possibility for Alassane Ouattara, president of the world's largest cocoa producer with 2 million tonnes a year, to announce a sharp rise in the price of the plants just less than a month before the presidential election. Côte d'Ivoire is the world's…

It is the start of the cocoa season in Côte d'Ivoire, and it is characterized by an increase in the price paid to the producer of more than 20% compared to last year. An economic boost a few days before the presidential election in a very uncertain context for the cocoa sector. The cocoa farmers expected and hoped strongly for…