{"id":35091,"date":"2026-05-21T20:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=35091"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:36:50","slug":"ivory-coast-expects-cocoa-output-to-rise-10-5-in-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ivory-coast-expects-cocoa-output-to-rise-10-5-in-2025-26-season\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ivory Coast expects cocoa output to rise 10.5% in 2025\/26 season&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ivory Coast expects cocoa production to reach between 2 and 2.1 million metric tons in the current 2025\/26 season which runs through to the \u200bend of September, up 10.5% from last season, the head of the Coffee \u200cand Cocoa Council (CCC) said.<\/div>\n<div>That would be the first rise in output for the world&#8217;s largest cocoa producer in three seasons, after production fell sharply due to adverse weather, ageing plantations and the rapid spread of swollen \u200bshoot disease.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A <i>Reuters <\/i>poll of traders and analysts issued in March had a consensus \u200bforecast for the Ivory Coast cocoa crop to reach 1.8 million tons in 2025\/26.<\/div>\n<div>CCC \u2060Director Yves Brahima Kone told Reuters, in an interview conducted on Wednesday, that high cocoa \u200bprices over the past two seasons have enabled cocoa farmers to buy and use more fertiliser and \u200bimprove how they manage their plantations, boosting output.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We currently stand at just over 1.7 million tons as of May 11, in terms of cocoa arrivals at the two ports,&#8221; said Kone. &#8220;This is a positive trend when \u200bcompared to the last two seasons.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A Europe-based cocoa trader said large volumes of cocoa remain unsold \u200bin Ivory Coast.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;There is still so much cocoa on the ground, but (Ivorian exporters) did not want to (sell) before \u200cthe \u2060market went up, plus farmers did not want to sell at the cheaper farmgate price,&#8221; the trader said.<\/div>\n<div>Recent selling from Ivory Coast could make the size of the surplus more visible in European warehouses in the coming weeks, the trader added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22668,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-35091","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"A Europe-based cocoa trader said large volumes of cocoa remain unsold \u200bin Ivory Coast.","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35093,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/35091\/revisions\/35093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=35091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}