date:Jan 30, 2013
production outlook for Ivory Coast remains key to cocoa prices because of aging orchards and poor infrastructure--both of which have hampered output of the sweet bean over the past few years.
The bank added, however, that the Ivorian government's reform of its cocoa sector, a condition stipulated by the International Monetary Fund for debt relief, should help to increase production levels out of the world's number one producer because of higher levels of investment.
At the World Cocoa Conferen