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Booming cocoa prices are stirring interest in turning Nigeria into a bigger player in the sector, with hopes of challenging top producers Ivory Coast...
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Ghana’s government on Wednesday announced a 45-percent increase in the producer price of cocoa for the 2024/2025 crop season, in a bid to curb...
Business
Ghanaian cocoa farmer Isaac Antwi says he has to smuggle his beans to Ivory Coast to sell them at a decent profit even as...
Business
Though cocoa prices on the financial markets have soared, the rise is benefiting cocoa growers, bean processors, speculators and chocolatiers in unequal measure. In...
Business
Julia Avellan had been tempted to quit the cocoa business before prices unexpectedly exploded on the international market this year, bringing historic profits to...
Business
In March, prices rocketed to more than $10,000 a tonne in New York after a poor harvest in West Africa.
Tech & Science
A consequence of the expansion is that thousands of hectares of forest have been destroyed to make way for cocoa plantations.
World
Ghana, the world’s second biggest cocoa producer, faces a growing risk to its harvest — and blow to its crisis-hit economy — from illegal...
Tech & Science
Biochar is a charcoal-like substance, produced by heating organic biomass from agriculture and forestry waste in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis) to make it...
Business
The world’s chocolate industry could be in for a turbulent ride as the two biggest cocoa producers set down demands to pay higher prices.