ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – The International Cocoa Organization (Ico) has released its revised forecasts for the current 2018/19 cocoa year and revised estimates of world production, grindings and stocks of cocoa beans for 2017/18, as summarized below.
The data published in Issue No. 2 – Volume XLV – Cocoa year 2018/19 of the Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics reflect the most recent information available to the Secretariat as at the beginning of May 2019.
Summary of revised forecasts and estimates
Notes:
a/ Estimates published in Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics, Vol. XLV – No. 1 – Cocoa year 2018/19
b/ Surplus/deficit: Net world crop (gross crop adjusted for loss in weight) minus grindings
Totals may differ due to rounding.
This issue of the Bulletin also contains the Secretariat’s revised forecasts for the 2018/19 cocoa year as well as data for the past four years of production and grindings of cocoa beans, detailed by country.
