The muck from incessant rain sloshes around Nestor N’Guessan’s feet as he points to a plot of cocoa trees ravaged by rot on his farm in Ivory Coast. The 52-year-old grower can’t save those plants from black pod disease, so he’s focusing efforts on quarantining whatever healthy ones he has…
Its a climate crisis playing out across Ivory Coast and Ghana, the heavyweights of cocoa, with consequences for global food inflation and the cost-of-living squeeze.
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Above-average rain and some
sun in most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa regions last week could
boost the October-to-March main-crop, farmers said on Monday. Ivory Coast, the world’s top. -November 27, 2023 at 11:37 am EST
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Downpours mixed with sunny
spells in most of Ivory Coast s main cocoa regions will help
cocoa trees to go through the dry season, which runs from
mid-November to March, farmers said on Monday. . -November 13, 2023 at 07:48 am EST
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