Nina Gavrilova, a researcher at the Africa Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, confirmed that chocolate prices will not decrease globally with the decline in the price of cocoa and the rise in the costs of production logistics and electricity.

She said: “Given the high prices of production processes, electricity, logistics and other expenses associated with them, a decline in chocolate prices in the world should not be expected.”

According to the data, cocoa bean prices decreased by about 1.9 times by the end of the first quarter of this year. Gavrilova attributed this decline to the recovery of crop productivity and the reconstitution of stocks in the markets.

The expert expected that if exceptional events did not occur in the global economy, cocoa prices during the years 2026-2027 would remain in a range between 3 and 4 thousand dollars per ton.

Gavrilova concluded her statements by saying: “Retail prices for chocolate and products made from it do not respond as quickly as the commodity market does on the stock exchanges. Talk about a decline in the prices of chocolate products is still premature.”