Cote d'Ivoire: Cocoa Sector Overview - 2025

FAS Abidjan, Accra (Post) foresees Ivorian cocoa bean production in market year (MY) 2024/2025 (October-September) climbing upwards towards 1.8 million metric tons (MMT, improving by over 2 percent from the MY 2023/2024 season’s 1.76 MMT production figure. Press reports point to the MY 2023/2024 season being 24 percent down compared to the earlier MY 2022/2023 season’s production of 2.3 million MT due to poor weather. The MY 2024/2025 cocoa season is facing challenges, that impact domestic production. Heavy rainfall throughout September and October 2024, facilitated the spread of brown rot fungal disease (attributed to the fungus Phytophthora megakarya) in the country’s western and southwestern production regions, potentially affecting yields. Since December 2024 and now into February 2025, Harmattan winds with a lack of suboptimal rainfall is raising concerns with cocoa farmers, who fear a repetition of the previous season’s unfavorable growing conditions.