Ivory Coast: Cocoa Farmers Fear Unpredictable Climate To Lower Crop Yields

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Farmers in Ivory coast have expressed fears over low cocoa yields this year due to low density of rainfall.

Ivory Coast produces almost half the world’s supply of the raw ingredients used in chocolate.

The cooperative helping farmers bring their crops to the markets, said small-scale cocoa producers are hurting because of climate change.

Rains need to come at the right times in the growing cycle for the cocoa tree to fruit well. Coming at the wrong times risks crop disease according to experts.