Ivory Coast's cocoa mid-crop output is expected to drop around 40% this season after an unusually long dry season and limited ...

A farmer holds cocoa beans while he is drying them at a village in Sinfra, Ivory Coast April 29, 2023. REUTERS/Luc Gnago/File Photo PARIS, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Cocoa production in Ivory Coast in ...

(Bloomberg) -- Top cocoa grower Ivory Coast’s upcoming mid-crop is expected to be smaller this year following unfavorable weather, threatening to limit a recovery from a huge global shortage.

“Even if the rain comes today…it’s already too late,” said Paul Kouame Kouakou, who owns four hectares of cocoa in Duekoue, in the west of Ivory Coast. It usually takes a flower around 22 weeks to ...

Without flowers ... no fruit," he said. Soil temperatures increase in line with air temperatures leading to greater water evaporation, noted Kone. Agriculture represents a quarter of Ivory Coast's ...