Yves Brahima Koné, the head of the Conseil Café-Cacao, has decided to calm relations between his organisation and exporters who have been unable to fulfil their contracts for the main harvest season.
Cocoa prices on the stock exchange hit a renewed high yesterday, with the Futures market touching the $10,000 a tonne mark for the first time ever, as prices more than treble in the space of a year, causing widespread industry concern, writes Neill Barston.
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It was billed in the World Cocoa Foundation agenda as a ‘Fireside Chat.’ Still, the conversation was anything but cozy as the 2024 Partnership Meeting welcomed back Yves Brahima Koné, Cote d’Ivoire’s Coffee & Cocoa Council director general, and Joseph Boahen Aidoo, CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board, to discuss, among other topics, cocoa production, climate change, farmer income, and the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
It was billed in the World Cocoa Foundation agenda as a ‘Fireside Chat.’ Still, the conversation was anything but cozy as the 2024 Partnership Meeting welcomed back Yves Brahima Koné, Cote d’Ivoire’s Coffee & Cocoa Council director general, and Joseph Boahen Aidoo, CEO of the Ghana Cocoa Board, to discuss, among other topics, cocoa production, climate change, farmer income, and the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).