Cocoa

As Stakeholders worry over Nigeria's failure to tap $493 million cocoa potential Nigerian production for 2019/20 could dip about 3-5% to around 305,000 tonnes due to excessive rainfall, Riman said, estimating 2018/19 output at 310,000 tonnes. The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) puts the 2018/19...

Rally is driven by uncertainty over a plan designed to aid farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast By Joe Wallace Cocoa prices are surging as traders grapple with a new method for pricing exports designed to alleviate poverty among farmers in Ivory Coast and Ghana, the...

* The two countries have had informal talks - producer group * Move comes after Ivory Coast, Ghana moved to lift prices * Cameroon trade ministry unaware of plan, trader sceptical (Adds quotes, details) By Chijioke Ohuocha LAGOS, Oct 10 - Nigeria aims to team up with...

Coffee consumption in Nigeria rose by more than 20% between 2010 and 2015. Euromonitor predicts Nigerians will drink more than 1,000 tons of coffee in 2020, 23% higher than last year. Nearly 10% of the world’s coffee still comes from the continent, but Nigeria, Africa’s...

Accra: Ghana has recorded its biggest cocoa harvest in three years, according to two people familiar with the matter, after better weather conditions boosted output in the world’s second-biggest cocoa grower. Graded and sealed deliveries from the so-called main crop, the larger of two...

Executive Director, Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Mr Olusegun Awolowo, has said that Nigeria sells 47 per cent of it’s Cocoa to the Netherlands. Awolowo said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a trade agreement between the Netherlands and Nigeria at...

By Tolani Awere Black pod thrives in wet conditions, causing trees to wither Cases recorded in Nigeria’s two main cocoa-growing regions Nigeria’s 2019-20 cocoa crop is threatened by an attack of the fungal black-pod disease due to the wetness created by persistent rains in the main cocoa-growing...

Chijioke Ohuocha LAGOS, June 20 - Heavy rainfall and poor sunshine across Nigeria’s cocoa-growing regions raises the likelihood of black pod disease which would hurt the main crop this season, an industry body said on Thursday. Farmers in Nigeria, the world’s fourth-biggest cocoa grower, are...

Ange Aboa SUNYANI, Ghana (Reuters) - Ghana’s cocoa output is expected to drop nearly 6 percent this season to 850,000 tonnes because of disease and dry weather, sources at the cocoa regulator, COCOBOD, said on Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT Ghana previously forecast production of 900,000 tonnes, the same as...

Abidjan — Mixed rains fell over Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week, farmers said on Monday, with more showers needed in some areas to boost the April-to-September mid-crop. The rainy season in the world’s biggest cocoa producer runs from mid-March to late October, with heavy...