(The Conversation) – A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate ...

The Managing Director of the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC), Dr Wisdom Kofi Dogbey, has visited the West Africa Mills Company (WAMCO) to assess the readiness of cocoa processing firms ahead of the ...

Chocolate prices have jumped again this Easter, and it has a lot of people concerned about how much higher they can go—and ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) today is up +642 (+7.81%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) is up +298 (+4.59%). Cocoa prices today have extended this week's sharp rally, with NY cocoa posting ...

Price corrections have severely squeezed farmers and destabilized agricultural state support systems in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria However, this market shift is simultaneously restoring ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) on Monday closed down -322 (-4.01%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) closed down -187 (-2.87%). Cocoa prices fell sharply on Monday, with NY cocoa posting a ...

Olam Food Ingredients (Ofi) has installed two circular biomass boilers at its cocoa processing factories in the Netherlands and Germany. By using cocoa shells – a by-product of the cocoa production ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon plans to double its cocoa processing capacity to about 30 percent of its total production or nearly 70,000 tonnes of beans per year by adding 10 new processing units, a ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday declared that the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is fully committed to reviving Nigeria’s cocoa industry, with a strategic shift from raw cocoa ...

The Ekiti State Government has unveiled a plan to raise 10 million cocoa seedlings over the next 10 years as part of efforts to revive cocoa production and restore the state’s position in Nigeria’s ...

PRESIDENT Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced that Guyana will soon begin large-scale production of cocoa and coffee.