Ivory Coast Cocoa Purchases Top 2 Million Tons for Record Crop
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Ivory Coast produced a record cocoa harvest in the season that ends this weekend, with purchases in the world’s biggest grower of the beans exceeding 2 million metric tons for the first time.
Cocoa purchases in the West African nation totaled 2.015 million tons through Sept. 24 since the start of the season in October, Lambert Kouassi Konan, chairman of the board of directors at industry regulator Le Conseil du Cafe-Cacao, told reporters Friday in the commercial capital, Abidjan. That’s an increase of 29 percent from the 1.568 million tons harvested in the previous season, Konan said.