Commodities

Ivory Coast Expects Cocoa Rebound Next Season on Better Weather

  • Country expects to harvest 2 million tons in 2024-25 crop year
  • Futures prices have dipped on improved cocoa crop outlook
A farmer carries a bag of cocoa beans at a farm near Agboville, in Ivory Coast.Photographer: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Ivory Coast’s cocoa output is expected to rebound next season — helping ease a global supply squeeze that pushed prices past records — as the world’s top grower banks on better weather.

The West African producer is likely to harvest 2 million tons of the chocolate-making ingredient in the 2024-25 crop year that starts Oct. 1, according to people familiar with the matter, who cited early pod counting.