Togo/Campaign 2024 - 2025: Coffee and cocoa exports up 50%.

In Togo, the 2024-2025 coffee and cocoa marketing campaign saw a further increase in volumes compared with the previous campaign. The results were presented by the Comité de Coordination de la Filière Café-Cacao (CCFCC), at the launch of the 2025-2026 sales operation, last weekend in Kpalimé.

In the 2023-2024 season, exports reached 2,618 tonnes for coffee and 1,182 tonnes for cocoa. In 2024-2025, they rose sharply, with 4,400 tonnes of coffee and 24,000 tonnes of cocoa exported, representing an increase of around 50% in both sectors.

This momentum is underpinned by the commitment of all stakeholders to making the sectors more efficient, competitive and wealth-creating by 2030. The implementation of the Coffee-Cocoa Sector Development Plans (PDCC), adopted a year ago, focusing on the sustainable improvement of productivity and quality, the development of new technologies and the creation of new jobs. and quality, the development of processing and the strengthening of domestic and foreign marketing, has also been key to this new rise.

Over the same period, the CCFCC also signed employment contracts with 11 product controllers, bringing the total number of staff to 16 to reinforce its coverage of the field. Training and anti-smuggling initiatives were also carried out.

For the record, the volume of coffee marketed in 2021 had fallen by more than 23%, with 2,000 tonnes exported compared with 2,600 tonnes in 2020. Cocoa sales fell by half, to 5,400 tonnes in 2021, compared with 10,600 tonnes in 2020. Since then, both sectors have seen a steady recovery.

Source: www.togofirst.com