Photos 6 October 2015

Leading the world in cocoa production by supplying roughly a third of the world’s cocoa beans,  the Ivory Coast is slated to produce nearly 1.7 million metric tons of cocoa by the end of the 2015 season as stated by Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan.

Photographer: Jose Cendon

Workers carry machetes on their way to cut cocoa fruit from trees.
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Cocoa fruits hangs from trees before being harvested.
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A worker searches for the fruit that is ready to be harvested.
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Fruit is cut from the trees.
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Workers harvest cocoa fruit from trees.
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The fruit is piled on the ground after the harvest.
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Workers cut open the cocoa fruit to reveal the seeds inside.
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Workers ferment the cocoa seeds.
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Cocoa seeds sit on mats to dry on a roadside in Agboville, Ivory Coast.
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