date:May 24, 2016
he mid-crop in Ivory Coast and also in Ghana, Martijn Bron told Reuters in an interview.
For us this (poor mid-crops) is the reason to now forecast for a whole year a fairly decent deficit.
Bron said the drought had also reduced bean size, making them harder to process and reducing their fat content. The Ivory Coasts Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) also bans exports of small beans.
Because these beans are small they will be retained up country because they cannot be exported easily and they ca