Export performance of agricultural products in Ivory Coast since January

At the end of March, (provisional) trade statistics in Côte d'Ivoire are published. Despite the good recovery in beans exports recently, the figures for the period October (start of the 2020/21 season) to the end of February show a 12% drop in cocoa volumes compared to the same period last season. , at 882,852 tonnes (t). In contrast, international sales of semi-processed bean products jumped 15% while remaining modest in absolute volumes, to 193,909 t. It is butter and powder, but not chocolate. Poor performance of coffee in the two months of January and February alone with a recorded drop of 57% in exports, to 3,878 t, according to provisional port data. Also in sharp decline but less, natural rubber whose shipments fell by more than 30% over the first two months of the calendar year, to ...