Cocoa grinders in Ivory Coast, the world’s top producer, are struggling with poor-quality beans with unusually high levels of waste material mixed into deliveries arriving from farms, piling on ...

MEAGUI, Ivory Coast, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The quality of cocoa in top grower Ivory Coast's main crop has already fallen to levels normally seen later in the year as poor weather takes its toll, raising ...

Jean Mari Konan Yao says he’s struggling as a cocoa farmer in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s cocoa supply of the raw ingredient used in chocolate. Like ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) -Ivory Coast's cocoa grind dropped 31.2% year-on-year in July to 39,301 metric tons, data from exporters' association GEPEX showed on Monday, with grinders citing poor bean quality ...

ABIDJAN, July 28 (Reuters) - Output from cocoa grinders in top grower Ivory Coast has dropped nearly nine percent so far this season as increasingly poor bean quality forced companies to slow or halt ...

September ICE NY cocoa (CCU25) today is down -33 (-0.41%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU25) is up +51 (+0.91%). Cocoa prices today are mixed, with NY cocoa sliding to a 4-week low. Forecasts ...

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) has helped the national police to seize three trucks loaded with 1,500 bags of cocoa beans on the border with Guinea, the regulator's ...

N'GATTAKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — Jean Mari Konan Yao says he's struggling as a cocoa farmer in the west African nation of Ivory Coast, which produces almost half the world’s cocoa supply of the raw ...