Second bean auction of ICA winners: results

The CoEx Programme is proud of its collaboration with Chocoa again this year and had a stand at Chocoa Trade Fair 21-22 February. See the full programme at https://www.chocoa.nl

CoEx and Chocoa hosted the second live cocoa bean auction on 22 February afternoon (See the results here).

The CoEx Technical Committee met 18-20 February to agree on the final technical issues regarding the evaluation of the new cocoa bean samples from the 50 cocoa-producing countries to be received by 28th February (deadline for samples submission).

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