Record prices for cocoa: Germany's favorite sweet could become more expensive. The price for a ton of raw cocoa rose to a record high of almost 5,500 euros on the raw material exchanges in February.
Longer periods of drought, heavy rain, floods and plant diseases have recently led to significantly lower yields or even completely destroyed harvests in growing countries such as Ivory Coast and Ghana. The two countries account for 60 percent of global cocoa production. The annual per capita consumption of chocolate products in Germany is stable; in 2023, according to the BDSI, it was 9.3 kilos.