As every year, the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) in Côte d'Ivoire on Thursday published the list of commercial companies and cooperatives approved for the export of cocoa and coffee for the 2021/22 campaign which will start on October 1.
There are 57 trading companies and 37 cooperatives, making a total of 94 entities (see for the list: http: //www.conseilcafecacao.ci/docs/2020-2021/ccc_decision_agrement_expo ...). They were 91 in 2020/21, 72 in 2019/20, 77 in 2018/19 and 72 the previous one (26% increase in the number of cocoa export licenses in Côte d'Ivoire).
Still in the cocoa sector, the association of exporters Gepex announced yesterday that 54,000 tonnes of beans had been crushed in Côte d'Ivoire in August, an increase of 20% compared to August 2020. This brings to 506,000 t the volume of cocoa ground since the start of the campaign, on October 1, 2020, which represents a drop of 1.5% compared to the same period last campaign. These figures relate to the activity of the six largest units in the country out of a total of 12.
It should be remembered that the country's grinding capacity is 712,000 t, the Ivory Coast competing each year with the Netherlands for the place of the world's leading bean processor.
Finally, to be complete on this rich cocoa news, yesterday, the CCC announced that the arrivals of cocoa at the ports totaled 2.142 Mt over the period from October 1 to August 31, up 4.8% over the same period of the campaign. former.
Source : COMMODAFRICA