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Ghana To Tap Stabilization Fund For Cocoa Pay Next Season

Ghana will probably start drawing from its stabilization fund to cover cocoa farmers’ pay during the season that starts in October as the second-bigg...

Macadamia Nut Craze Transforms Farmland In South Africa's East

Booming demand for macadamias is transforming farmland in eastern South Africa, as landowners switch focus from bananas and sugarcane to the creamy nuts us...

Africa Corn Silos Overflow In South As Food Crisis Hits East

Africa’s corn harvest this year is a tale of two extremes as worries about overflowing silos and rotting crops in the south contrast with the east wh...

Cocoa Slump Seen To Foil Cameroon Target of Doubling Output

Cameroon’s plans to more than double the nation’s production of cocoa beans by 2020 will not be achieved as falling prices are dissuading farme...

Pothole Puddles Show Risk For Cocoa, With Record Ivorian Crop

The scores of giant potholes that scar the roads from commercial capital Abidjan to Daloa, in the heart of Ivory Coast’s cocoa belt, have become deep...

Cocoa Plunge, Mutinous Army May Widen Ivory Coast Deficit

Tumbling cocoa prices and unscheduled payments to civil servants and mutinous soldiers in the past two months could widen Ivory Coast’s budget defici...

Top Wheat Buyers Grow More Of Their Own To Swell Global Glut

As if the global wheat surplus couldn’t get much worse, some of the biggest buyers may not need as much. That could swell stockpiles already expected...

Alien Armyworm Invasion Spreads to Congo, Ravages Corn Crop

An outbreak of the crop-destroying fall armyworm has spread to the Democratic Republic of Congo, laying waste to 63,000 hectares of corn in the southeast o...