
Problems with the cocoa supply are feared to be getting worse amid quality control problems in Ivory Coast, which is the main global supplier of cocoa beans. The mid-crop harvest is now underway, a harvest period that tends to produce tinier beans processed locally into cocoa butter, but indications appear that this harvest’s crop is unexpectedly of low quality. The main crop of cocoa is typically about one percent poor quality per truckload. However, this mid-harvest has increased to 5-6 percent of cocoa, with some truckloads coming in 15 percent low quality, becoming an issue in a business that has suffered back-to-back annual shortages.
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