By Reuters Staff
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ABIDJAN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Above average light rains mixed with spells of sunshine last week in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa regions provided the right growing conditions for the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.
Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, is currently in the dry season, which runs from mid-November to March, when rainfall levels are often poor.
Farmers said growing conditions have been good since December compared with last year. They added that an abundant cocoa harvest is expected in the first three months of the mid-crop if the weather was not too dry, and too hot in February.
Above average light rains mixed with spells of sunshine last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions provided the right growing conditions for the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers said on Monday.