Ivory Coast’s Coastal Cocoa Farmers Say Drought Threatens Crop
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A drought along the coastal areas of southwestern Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest cocoa producer, is raising farmers’ concern before the start of the main-crop harvest.
“We haven’t seen big rains since the rainy season started one month and a half ago,” Antoine Nabo, who owns a 15-hectare (37-acre) cocoa farm in Tui, near the port city of San Pedro, said in an interview on July 29. “There has been only some scattered rains. But it’s not enough.”