"smuggling...In fact, smuggling accounted for the loss of 150,000 tons of cocoa in Ghana...
"Things are getting so dire that Agri-Way noted "cocoa farmers are unlikely to fulfill some of their cocoa contracts for a second season."
"these unfulfilled contracts have led to several cocoa plants in the region halting processing as they can no longer afford to buy the raw beans"
It seems this article is all a lie. Crooked governments, corrupt companies; child labor, slave labor, criminal gangs, cocao smuggling.
It's a "Third World" rigged game. The farmers and the laborers don't make enough to live on, so why work.
and still somehow, "...the price of cocoa hit an all-time high..."
Where did all the money go?
African cocoa trading centre opens in central China - New Vision Official