{"id":19482,"date":"2023-11-21T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=19482"},"modified":"2023-11-21T14:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T14:03:36","slug":"ivory-coasts-cocoa-bean-season-warms-up-to-fair-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2023\/11\/21\/ivory-coasts-cocoa-bean-season-warms-up-to-fair-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast\u2019s cocoa bean season warms up to fair weather\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plenty of rain and sunshine in the past week promises a bumper 2024 cocoa bean crop in Ivory Coast ahead of the dry season. This news uplifts September 2023 projections of a 20% fall <\/u><\/a>in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire\u2019s cocoa supplies for the 2023\/24 crop.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is happening as the 2023\/24 cocoa beans\u2019 planting season picks from October to March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Even as the rainy season nears its end, farmers have been impressed by abundant rain and good sunshine<\/u><\/a> through mid-November. In the cocoa-growing Agboville vicinity, rainfall reached 24 mm <\/u><\/a>in the second week of November, nearly 4 mm above normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that when the dry season starts from late November through March, it will find a nourished cocoa crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farmers usually bank low hopes on the dry season because it brings the destructive dry southerly winds known as Harmattan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are hopes that by the time the current rain patterns break, the main cocoa harvest will be over by January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If, however, Harmattan land early, they might stunt the small pods that comprise the lesser harvest of February through March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Pounds of Cocoa Per Tree <\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After some 5 or six months it takes pods to ripen, a cocoa plant becomes ready for the main harvest. From each tree there are usually about 30-40 beans per pod out of a total of 30 pods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single tree therefore provides 900 beans or twice the 400 dried beans<\/u><\/a> that make a single pound of cocoa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong>  Vs 2023-24 Production <\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Despite the promising rain pattern, it is hard to predict if the 2023-24 cocoa crop will surpass 2022\u2019s output.  Ivory Coast\u2019s October-December 2022 production levels hit 1.259 million tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Predictions are for a short crop due to El Ni\u00f1o , which analysts forecast may last to spring, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buying and Selling Cocoa<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In August, cocoa market prices in West Africa fell<\/u><\/a> to $2.65 per kg in New York following El Ni\u00f1o dissipation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ivory Coast, farmers dry the beans for themselves and get them ready for buyers. Post-harvest processing determines quality and hence the price buyers at strategic purchasing stations pay producers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2023, the Ivorian government awarded cocoa farmers an 11% minimum gate price rise as buffer against buyer manipulation. This echoed the same gesture in Ghana where the government upped farm gate prices for cocoa beans by 63%<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buyers then take the cocoa to exporters in Abidjan, who pay them according to the reigning international prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exporters safeguard the dried cocoa in protective textile and plastic bags till the day of shipment abroad for cocoa processing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plenty of rain and sunshine in the past week promises a bumper 2024 cocoa bean crop in Ivory Coast ahead of the dry season. 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