The Director General of the Ivory Coast Coffee-Cocoa Council, KONE Brahima Yves, received in audience a Dutch delegation of 35 businessmen led by the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Abidjan, Mr Robert VAN DEN DOOL. The purpose of the meeting was to encourage the visiting party to become involved in the local processing of cocoa beans.
According to information, the Dutch were also looking for more insurance vis-à-vis their big supplier who ended a few months ago the system of the auction for the benefit of the direct sales by telephone. The idea is to get closer to Ghana by sometimes selling the harvest before production.
In the long term, the majority of the campaign currently on sale, namely the 2019-2020 harvest, which does not yet exist in the trees, should be sold in this way, by mutual agreement, to buyers with solid guarantees.