West African cocoa production, which has faced two successive below-average harvests, is likely to see another 10% decline in ...

Cocoa prices began the year at record high levels, peaking at $10.75 per kilogram in January, due to poor West African harvests and supply disruptions. However, New York cocoa futures fell 4% last ...

Lindt’s Lechner said “the magnitude of these increases in raw material forced us, also, in the last years, ... and pest outbreaks in West Africa that caused a supply deficit.

Chocolate prices are up and expected to rise further after catastrophic weather and crop disease crushed the cocoa yield in West Africa. February 13, 2025 5 min ...

A tamping down of tariff concerns and improved weather in West Africa contributed to the selling pressure. Cocoa futures in New York were 5.4% to $9,140 a ton in late morning trading to trade at ...