Cocoa futures hit three-week highs as West African crop quality worries intensify
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Cocoa futures rallied to three-week highs as West African crop quality concerns intensified, with reduced sunshine supporting black pod disease and lowering bean quality. Ghana's COCOBOD and early Ivory Coast surveys point to materially smaller 2026/27 output, tightening forward supply expectations and supporting prices despite higher Nigeria exports, stronger current Ivorian port arrivals, and ICE inventories at a two-year high. Mixed Q2 grindings leave demand signals uneven.
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Cocoa futures surged on Monday, lifting both New York and London contracts to three-week highs. Ghana’s Cocoa Board expects 2026/27 output to fall 13% to 65万吨, and early assessments suggest the new-season crop could drop 18%. Although Nigeria’s July cocoa exports rose 18% year on year, traders focused more on crop-quality concerns across West Africa’s key producing regions.
