Ivory Coast reassures farmers over purchase of excess cocoa stock amid strike threats

Ivory Coast has given assurances that it will continue a programme to buy a residual stock of 100,000 metric tons of cocoa at the guaranteed price, the head of the cocoa producers' organisation said on Tuesday.


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