date:Jan 26, 2016
oa futures, while seeing the potential for prices to recover for now to end March at about $3,000 a tonne, above the $2,878 a tonne May futures are factoring in the revival will not last.
Futures were forecast ending 2016 at $2,750 a tonne, some $100 a tonne below the futures curve.
The dent to output in West Africa, the top cocoa-growing region, from the dry Harmattan wind looks likely to be less negative than originally thought, Mr Rijkers said.
Cocoa arrivals from plantations to Ivory Co