Ivory Coast cocoa crop to drop by 11 percent
Ivory Coast’s main
cocoa crop is likely to drop 11 percent to 800,000 tonnes in the new
2010/11 season due to black pod disease, the official marketing body of
the world’s top grower said on Friday.
“We expect there
will be a deficit in the main crop of at least 100,000 tonnes compared
with last year,” said Gilbert Ano, president of the country’s cocoa
sector management committee and head of the Coffee and Cocoa Bourse
(BCC), at the official opening of the new cocoa season.
“Last season, we
saw 900,000 tonnes. This year, we expect 800,000 tonnes as a result of
the rains, which provoked an outbreak of black pod disease,” he added.
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