The Conseil du Café-Cacao is responsible for :

1.REGULATORY MISSIONS

• To manage all activities in the Coffee-Cocoa sector.
• Controlling the quality of coffee and cocoa.
• Certify operators in the coffee and cocoa sector.
• Assisting the Government in negotiating and implementing international agreements on the marketing of coffee and cocoa.
• Ensure the State’s financial participation in international coffee and cocoa organisations.
• Supervising the development of projects aimed at improving product quality.

2.STABILISATION MISSIONS

• Forecasting coffee and cocoa harvests.
• Monitor physical stocks of coffee and cocoa.
• Setting purchase prices for coffee and cocoa producers and ensuring that these prices are applied.
• Organising and controlling the domestic marketing of coffee and cocoa.
• Organising and monitoring the external marketing of coffee and cocoa.
• Manage electronic messaging for coffee and cocoa export sales operations.
• Implement price stabilisation mechanisms for coffee and cocoa producers.
• Manage packaging and export operations for coffee and cocoa.
• Set up a compensation system between the guaranteed purchase price for producers and the export sales price for coffee and cocoa.
• Produce and disseminate statistics nationally and internationally.
• Designing and implementing sales action programmes.

3.DEVELOPMENT MISSIONS

• Research and implement any measure aimed at increasing coffee and cocoa productivity.
• Bringing technological innovations and scientific research closer to producers.
• Helping the Government to combat the worst forms of child labour in cocoa farming.
• To improve the quality of coffee and cocoa production and packaging.
• Promoting the industrial processing of coffee and cocoa.
• Promoting national coffee and cocoa exporters.
• Promoting Ivorian coffee and cocoa on the international market.
• To draw up agreements with support and development structures and with partners in the Coffee-Cocoa sector in the fields of research, extension and agricultural consultancy, and to monitor their implementation.
• To organise strategic and health monitoring of the Coffee-Cocoa Sector with a view to anticipating the issues and challenges facing the sector.
• Promote national consumption.
• Promoting the Coffee-Cocoa Sector’s contribution to rural development.
• Carry out any other activity within the scope of its missions and remit, unless the Government decides otherwise.