The drop in beans arrivals is expected to last until the end of the main harvest in February and March, and might extend into the first two months of the mid-crop harvest in April and May if rains do not arrive with more regularity, exporters, farmers and buyers told Reuters. Cocoa farming requires heavy rainfall with spells of sunshine for drying of beans.
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Above-average rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week will boost the April-to-September mid-crop after weeks of dry .
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Above-average rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week will boost the April-to-September mid-crop after weeks of dry .
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Above-average rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week will boost the April-to-September mid-crop after weeks of dry .
No rain fell last week in most of Ivory Coast s cocoa regions and a strong seasonal dry wind in central regions raised fears over the quality and the size of the April-to-September mid-crop, farmers.