Tag: Harvest

Chocflation: Ghana mulls 100% cocoa price hike amid perfect storm of multiple crises

April 4, 2024

Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer, considers doubling farmgate price of the crop to combat smuggling amid a global shortage, as the country’s share of ... Read More

High cost of imported fertilizers is adding to food crisis in Africa

July 28, 2023

Global fertilizer suppliers have benefited from high fertilizer prices in 2022-23 but, by and large, they have undermined production, contributed to high food prices, and ... Read More

AfDB loans Tunisia $87.1m to finance project in cereal sector

July 20, 2023

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Tunisia inked a deal Wednesday for a $87.1-million credit facility for the financing of a project to support the ... Read More

Ivory Coast: bean shortage pushes cocoa exporters on verge of default

February 15, 2023

Cocoa exporters in Ivory Coast are on the verge of defaulting on their contracts due to a lack of beans and urgently need up to ... Read More

FAO: Morocco’s 2017 Harvest Prospects Very Promising

May 11, 2017

Unlike in 2016 when only 2.7 million tons of wheat and 600,000 tons of barley were harvested mainly due to poor and erratic rains, prospects ... Read More