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3 Min Read ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cocoa exporters in the world’s top grower Ivory Coast are switching to cheaper contracts for later delivery and buying less to cut inventories amid a glut, blaming a scheme to charge a $400-per-tonne cocoa premium to curb farmer poverty. Farmers break cocoa pods at a cocoa farm in Soubre, Ivory Coast January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Luc Gnago Exporters said that the introduction this season of the Living Income Differential (LID) premium - paid by exporters to the government to support farmers - together with a bumper crop while global demand is falling, had left them with tonnes of unsold stocks and forced them to limit risks. ....
3 Min Read ABIDJAN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has not sold up to 15% of cocoa from its ongoing main crop, while the vast majority of the upcoming mid-crop remains unsold as the COVID-19 pandemic drives down chocolate demand, four industry and regulatory sources said on Tuesday. The performance is the worst in decades for the world’s top cocoa producer and comes amid an escalating standoff with industry buyers over a premium aimed at combating farmer poverty. Ivory Coast normally sells export contracts for all of its main crop and 30-40% of its mid-crop before the season begins in October. The last time the country did not sell all of its harvest was the 1988/89 season. ....
Ivory Coast's large backlog of unsold cocoa could cause an around 10% slump in the guaranteed price for the 2020/21 mid-crop and jeopardise the outlook for next season, industry sources said, amid a slowdown in demand linked to COVID-19. ....
ABIDJAN Cocoa exporters in the world’s top grower Ivory Coast are switching to cheaper contracts for later delivery and buying less to cut inventories amid a… ....
3 Min Read ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Top cocoa producer Ivory Coast’s largest growers’ union called on its members on Monday to strike and threatened to block port deliveries in response to low prices and warehouse backlogs. A farmer works on a cocoa farm in Bobia, Gagnoa, Ivory Coast, December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon//File Photo More than 100,000 tonnes of cocoa beans are piled up in farm warehouses because of a demand slump during the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting some farmers to sell below the guaranteed farm gate price. The National Association of Ivorian Producers (ANAPROCI), which has about 600,000 members, and two other agricultural unions are also calling for the resignation of the director-general of the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC). ....