In the West region of Cameroon, very heavy rains have been recorded over the past thirty days, completely filling the soil reservoirs and covering the needs of the plants. However, the excessive rainfall in a short period of time has left the region reckoning with damage to infrastructure and several buildings and, in the case of […]
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Coffee lovers may need to buckle up amid the looming coffee price hikes as Vietnam’s vast coffee hoards shrink. The global coffee market is facing huge deficits, and key players in the coffee industry are battered by drought, heavy rainfalls, insufficient supply and shipping bottlenecks. As opposed to production, global coffee consumption is increasing after
VIETNAM ROBUSTA RESERVES SHRINK, COFFEE PRICES MAY RISE AGAIN Read More »
With the increasing demand for organic and Fair trade products, UK leader, Traidcraft, has launched a range of speciality chocolate bars that fuse mouth-watering flavours with positive environmental impact. As part of an exciting new collection for the eco-conscious chocolate love, the brand has introduced an Organic White Chocolate with Earl Grey, Organic White Chocolate
UK FAIR TRADE PIONEER TRAIDCRAFT LAUNCHES ORGANIC CHOCOLATE BARS Read More »
Ritter Sport has recently launched the #DiscoverRitterSport campaign through the ‘Colourful World of Chocolate’ activation. In collaboration with Dufry and Zürich Airport, the month-long campaign will raise awareness of the company’s 30+ year sustainability efforts. The German chocolate specialists hope that by using their beloved mascot, Don Choco the Super Sloth as the focus of
RITTER SPORT CAMPAIGN WITH DUFRY & ZÜRICH AIRPORT TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS Read More »
With 9 kg of chocolate consumed per capita every year, Switzerland is the wonderland of sweet taste buds. The country is renowned worldwide for producing the finest chocolate a palate can desire. But before discovering the best Swiss chocolate you can buy, it’s important to answer a question: why did Switzerland even become famous for
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Côte d’Ivoire is supposed to be in its rainy season, which starts in April and lasts through to November. Rainfall has been less than expected for the time of year, however, and the weather is uncharacteristically dry with above-average temperatures. Nevertheless, moisture accumulated in the soil over the past week has provided a level of
SOIL MOISTURE IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE SUPPORT HARVEST DESPITE LACK OF RAIN Read More »
The ongoing war in Ukraine has affected the global fertiliser supply, among other commodities that keep the world going. Fertiliser prices have gone up in many countries, forcing governments and farmers to implement various strategies. The Kenyan government, for example, has distributed subsidised fertiliser to coffee farmers in an effort to increase both yield and
FERTILISER COST PUSHING VIETNAMESE COFFEE FARMERS TO OTHER CROPS Read More »
Luxurious ingredients, delicious fillings, refined textures and the guarantee that you are buying the best in the world. This is what comes to mind when we think of Belgian chocolate. What is Belgian chocolate? It might surprise you that Belgian chocolate doesn’t actually have specific quality requirements or manufacturing protocols that define it. Some food
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One hundred forty million hybrid cocoa seedlings have reportedly been raised as part of a COCOBOD initiative to revive dying farms infected with Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD). At BarTalks, we recently wrote about the progress that Ghana’s Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has made with their National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme (NCRP). Farms that were once
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ChocXO, which was founded in 2014 as a bean-to-bar chocolate company in Irvine, Ca, recently scaled production by adding capacity in its Canadian chocolate molding plant. They say that they use only fine flavour cocoa beans that are naturally nutty, fruity, and less bitter than traditional “bulk” cocoa beans. Less bitterness means less need for
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