By Reuters Staff
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ABIDJAN, May 10 (Reuters) - Below average rainfall and hot weather last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions could reduce the quality and size of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.
Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is in its rainy season, which runs from April to mid-November. But rainfall has been irregular in the last two weeks and farmers said beans could be small and acidic by June and July if the conditions persist.
In the centre-western region of Daloa, which produces a quarter of national output, farmers said the harvest could end early unless the weather changes.
Ivory Coast farmers need steady rains to bolster cocoa mid-crop
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Ivory Coast rains will improve quality of cocoa mid-crop, farmers say
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