{"id":532467,"date":"2026-10-07T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532467"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:21:15","slug":"abengourou-cooperatives-raise-alarm-over-cocoa-smuggling-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/abengourou-cooperatives-raise-alarm-over-cocoa-smuggling-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Abengourou: Cooperatives raise alarm over cocoa smuggling to Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cooperative societies of Ind\u00e9ni\u00e9-Djuablin are raising the alarm about a leakage of part of the cocoa production to Ghana, where some buyers are offering prices higher than the official Ivorian price of 1,200 FCFA per kilogram.<\/p>\n<p>The alert was issued on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, in Abengourou, on the occasion of the regional launch of the 2026-2027 coffee and cocoa marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to the cooperatives, buyers go directly to the plantations and offer amounts higher than the farm-gate price set in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. They believe that this situation encourages informal exports of beans to neighboring Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Sector officials are calling for increased monitoring of marketing channels and border areas, as well as better support for producers to limit sales outside the official circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026-2027 campaign was launched with an official cocoa price set at 1,200 FCFA per kilogram in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Abengourou, cooperatives are raising alarms about cocoa shipments to Ghana, where buyers are offering prices higher than the official 1,200 FCFA\/kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":532468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"pays":[],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532469,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532467\/revisions\/532469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532467"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532467"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}