The world's biggest cocoa producer is in its rainy season, which runs officially from April to Nov
Below-average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa regions should help the development of the October-to-March main crop, which could be higher quality and more abundant than the previous season, farmers said on Monday.
Farmers across the country mostly said they were happy with the weather, and that plantations had plenty of large and average-sized pods to be harvested until December. In the western region of Soubre, the southern regions of Agboville and Divo, and the eastern region of Abengourou, where rains were below the average, farmers and cooperative members said many trucks were loading beans in villages and the flow of beans leaving the bush was rising sharply.
“Everywhere in the villages there is cocoa and it is selling well,” said Salame Kone, who farms near Soubre, where 10.2 millimetres of rain fell last week, 15 mm below the five-year average.
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