Cocoa.

Now unsold beans are piling up, with around 100,000 tons stranded in the bush, with prices fixed at a minimum $1.82 per kilo.

This farmer is afraid buyers simply won't be interested.

I'm scared that my cocoa will remain on my hands, he says.

The bottleneck follows a request from chocolate buyers in Europe and the U.

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For a delay in deliveries companies including Mars, Hershey and Barry Cabo, all by from the Ivory Coast.

Now trader Alfred Yao says the downturn in orders is hitting lively hoods.

It has a negative impact because the day before yesterday we saw Children in the streets because their parents did not find buyers for their cocoa, so they did not have money to send their Children to school.