{"id":4989,"date":"2024-03-16T18:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4989"},"modified":"2024-03-16T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:57:27","slug":"what-the-cocoa-deficit-will-be-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4989","title":{"rendered":"What the cocoa deficit will be this season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This week, the media reported that significant cocoa processing facilities in Ghana and Cote d&#8217;Ivoire have halted or decreased operations since they cannot afford to buy cocoa beans. Consequently, there is an anticipation of a substantial increase in global chocolate prices.<\/p>\n<p>It is forecasted that in 2023\/2024 season there&#8217;ll be a 375,000 tonnes lack of growing cocoa compared to 74,000 tonnes deficit in the previous season which represents more than a fivefold increase.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"postie-attachments\">\n<div style=\"margin-right:10px;background:black;color:white;padding:2px; width:240px;float:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240316_205551_287.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240316_205551_287-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"attachment\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:.2em;text-align:left\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the media reported that significant cocoa processing facilities in Ghana and Cote d&#8217;Ivoire have halted or decreased operations since they cannot afford to buy cocoa beans. Consequently, there is an anticipation of a substantial increase in global chocolate prices. It is forecasted that in 2023\/2024 season there&#8217;ll be a 375,000 tonnes lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}