Ivory Coast Sees 2025/26 Cocoa Output Rising 10.5% to 2.1 Million Tons

3 articles · Updated · Reuters · May 21

Ivory Coast expects 2025/26 cocoa production to reach 2 million to 2.1 million metric tons, marking the first increase in three seasons after weather, ageing trees and disease cut prior harvests.
High cocoa prices over the past two seasons let farmers buy more fertiliser and improve plantation management, the regulator said, helping lift output above a March Reuters poll forecast of 1.8 million tons.
More than 1.7 million tons had already arrived at the two main ports by May 11, and a Europe-based trader said sizable unsold volumes remain in the country after exporters and farmers delayed sales.
That delayed selling could soon swell visible stocks in European warehouses, even as the regulator warned drought damage and weaker pod survival are clouding the end of this season and the start of the next one.

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