Rains were scarce in most of top grower Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions last week and more are needed to boost the ...

ICE NY cocoa (CCH25) today is up +324 (+2.90%), and March ICE London cocoa #7 (CAH25) is up +208 (+2.31%). Cocoa prices today ...

FILE - Cocoa pods are seen at a cocoa farm in Daloa ... it said. Large quantities of cocoa beans were illegally transported to Guinea during the holiday period in late December with the help of ...

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.

The Harmattan wind, which usually sweeps in from the Sahara desert between December and March, can dry the soil and harm cocoa pods ... yield and the quality of beans from February.