Sentences with phrase «as cocoa prices»

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The company recently told analysts that prices rose most significantly for chocolate and coffee as a result of the steep increase in both cocoa and green coffee costs.

Although cocoa prices scored the most impressive quarterly gain, with futures up 35 % on production issues in West Africa, soybeans were a standout as well, with futures up 9.8 % as a drought harmed crops in Argentina while years of bumper harvests in the United States were set to recede in 2018.

A consecutive deficit in 2012/13 is set to move cocoa prices higher as supply struggles to meet rising demand for chocolate products in Asia, according to financial services group Rabobank.

But there are several reasons to diversify crops, such as hedging farm revenue against the volatility of cocoa prices.

27 Oct 2017 — The Hershey Company has reported its sales and earnings for the third quarter which beat analysts expectations as the chocolate giant benefited from reduced cocoa prices and cost savings initiatives.

Wood's commodity predictions are based on Bernstein's Food Commodities Index, which tracks the price of 14 ingredient commodities, including milk, coffee, cocoa and sugar, and 6 related to packaging, such as crude oil, aluminium and PET.

Have also tried another more expensive French cocoa powder I ordered on Amazon - loved that as well but this price, quality and quantity can not be beat.

But some cocoa farmers in the Ashanti Region expressed disappointment in government over what they describe as a «paltry» increase in the producer price of cocoa.

The Deputy Minister however assured the farmers that government will continue the Stabilization Fund with annual contributions from the FoB price, as a risk mitigation mechanism against declines in international cocoa prices.

The admonishing comes as the cocoa industry, is facing hardest time recording the lowest price ever in the history of the industry.

Even cocoa as we have depended on have had its prices coming down very badly.

He named the challenges militating against cocoa production in the country as the unreliable supply of inputs to farmers as a direct result of the «free» input policy adopted by the government, new brands of chemical inputs released to cocoa farmers in Ghana without adequate trials and research by designated institutions, low producer prices paid to farmers and the politicisation of the mass spraying and fertiliser distribution programme.

Dr Akoto said the smuggling of cocoa and its subsidised inputs into neighbouring countries as a direct consequence of the input distribution system and the product pricing policies of the government, as well as the refusal of the government to pay annual production bonuses to farmers, was the other factor inhibiting growth in the cocoa sub-sector.

I have been looking into Weston A Price and cacao is mentioned as being high in phytic acid - do you know how much and if the roasted cocoa version is lower?

Today, futures market participants trading futures to hedge price risk exposure may include any commercial entity that produces or buys any of the commodities such as grains and livestock, the «softs» including cocoa, sugar, cotton, coffee, and orange juice; energies including crude oil, heating oil, gasoline, and natural gas; and metals such gold, silver, platinum, and copper.