Between October 1, 2019 and the end of February, the Singaporean Olam, the American Cargill, the Swiss Saco, the
French Sucden, Touton or Cémoi recovered 861,097 tons of cocoa beans from the new campaign
harvest, i.e. 52.4% of the total. Weakened by the fall of the Ivorian leader Saf Cacao, whose activities were
resumed a year ago (JA no 3035) by the Société agricole de café-cacao (SACC), local exporters are
struggle. S3C from the Ivorian-Lebanese Omais family (93,000 t) and SACC (64,000 t) barely survive. End
February, a crisis broke out between national exporters and multinationals. The first blame
seconds to siphon off all the Ivorian cocoa, leaving nothing to the national players, who, despite the
financial resources, cannot buy beans.