Ivory Coast's customs have seized around 2,000 metric tons of falsely declared cocoa beans worth around $19 million at its ...

Cocoa production in Ivory Coast in the 2024/25 season is on course to remain around last season's disappointing level after ...

Sales of next season’s cocoa crop in top producer Ivory Coast are off to a slow start, as exporters reel from a blistering ...

Strong rains across Ivory Coast’s central regions are expected to strengthen cocoa trees and improve growing conditions for ...

Rising global temperatures is making it harder to grow cocoa, which is leading to surging prices of chocolate.

Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa bean producer, accounting for about 40 per cent of global cocoa production and exports. The raw cocoa beans - chocolate's main ingredient - is the country ...

Cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, is usually smuggled over Ivory Coast's western border to Guinea and Liberia where traffickers pay above the local farmgate price for the commodity.

A sharp fall in output in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest supplier of the chocolate ingredient, and number two producer Ghana in 2023/24 triggered a surge in international prices to record highs ...