{"id":3094,"date":"2019-06-15T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"cocoa-prices-soar-as-cote-divoire-and-ghana-threaten-supply-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/15\/cocoa-prices-soar-as-cote-divoire-and-ghana-threaten-supply-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa Prices Soar As Cote d&#8217;Ivoire And Ghana Threaten Supply Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By AFP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cocoa\nprices rose sharply on Wednesday after key producers Cote d\u2019Ivoire and Ghana\nthreatened to stop selling their production to buyers unwilling to meet a\nminimum price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nthreat pushed the September forward contract for the commodity, listed in New\nYork, to $2,540 a ton, up 1.4 percent on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ntwo African nations, which together account for 60 percent of the world\u2019s cocoa\nproduction, summoned buyers to Accra for a two-day meeting demanding a price of\n$2,600 per ton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nthe end of the meeting, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, chief executive of the Ghana Cocoa\nBoard, told a news conference that their demands had been accepted in principle\nby the participants, but that there would be a follow-up meeting to work out\nhow to implement the agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIvory\nCoast and Ghana have suspended the sale of the 2020\/2021 crop until further\nnotice for preparation of the implementation of the floor price,\u201d he said\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2019\/06\/13\/business\/cocoa-prices-soar-cote-divoire-ghana-threaten-supply-cut\/#.XQOr8YgzY2w\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Cocoa prices rose sharply on Wednesday after key producers Cote d\u2019Ivoire and Ghana threatened to stop selling their production to buyers unwilling to meet a minimum price. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}