Chocolate prices soar everywhere as cocoa rots in West Africa

IVORY COAST (BLOOMBERG) – The muck from incessant rain sloshes around Nestor N’Guessan’s feet as he points to a plot of cocoa trees ravaged by rot on his farm in Ivory Coast. The 52-year-old grower can’t save those plants from black pod disease, so he’s focusing efforts on quarantining whatever healthy ones he has left. […]

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