Ivory Coast's shippers and cocoa processors declared 37,496 metric tons of cocoa for export in the 14 days to Oct. 14, slightly down on the 40,818 tons recorded for the final two weeks of September, industry data showed Friday.

The cocoa season runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 the next year.

The following table shows the tonnage of unprocessed cocoa beans declared for export per shipper in the 14 days to Oct. 14.

All figures are in metric tons.

Shipper                       Oct1-14 
ADM Cocoa Sifca                   726 
Barry Callebaut Negoce            100 
Cacoci                            100 
Cargill West Africa             6,231 
Cemoi Trading                     100 
Cocaf Ivoire (Noble)            1,428 
Cooperative Nouvel Esprit de K.   601 
Foragri                            80 
Miral                              75 
Novel-Ci                          601 
Outspan Ivoire (Olam)           5,592 
S3C                               801 
Zamacom (Ecom)                  2,653 
Total beans                    19,088

The next table shows the net weight of shipments declared for export per cocoa processing company in metric tons. The available statistics do not differentiate between cocoa liquor, cocoa butter and cocoa powder.

Processors 
Cargill Cocoa (ex Micao)        3,021 
Cemoi (Cantalou)                2,484 
Choco-Ivoire                    1,000 
Condicaf                          338 
Pronibex                          100 
Saco (Barry-Callebaut)          4,094 
Sucso                             814 
Unicao (ADM-Cocoa)              2,875

Typically, it takes one ton of cocoa beans to produce 800 kilograms of cocoa products.

The bean equivalent shows the amount of beans used to obtain the products declared for exports.

The sum of the bean equivalent and 'raw' bean exports equals total cocoa exports in the period.

Bean equivalent                18,408 
Total processed net weight     14,726 
Total cocoa                    37,496

-By John James and Ousmane Attai, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; +225 20221805 ; james_john@hotmail.com

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