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Cocoa futures resumed their upward trend to breach 8,600 per pound due to lingering concerns about tight cocoa supplies from Africa. Dealers said that
the market experienced some panic due to recent reports indicating that certain cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have either halted or reduced processing activities because they could not afford to buy beans. Latest data showed Ivory Coast farmers shipped 1.22 MMT of cocoa to ports from October 1 to March 10, down 29% from the same time last year. Meanwhile, the Ivory Coast cocoa regulator said it expects the Ivory Coast mid-crop, which officially starts in April and is the smaller of two annual harvests, to fall 33% to 400,000 MT from 600,000 MT last year. International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) on February 29 projected that the global 2023/24 cocoa deficit would widen sharply to 374,000 MT from 74,000 MT in 2022/23, largely due to unfavorable growing conditions and crop disease.