Above-average rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week has flooded plantations and could affect the start of the next October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday.
The world's top cocoa producer is in its rainy season, which runs officially from April to mid-November. Downpours are usually abundant and heavy during this time.They said the weather could lead to diseases and that there was a lack of sunshine.
"It is not good here, showers come one after the other. Farmers can no longer go to the fields because rivers have broken their banks and there is flooding," said Arsene Kouao. Rainfall was unusually high in other cocoa-growing parts of the country. The western region of Soubre recorded 119 mm last week, 65.7 mm above the average. The southern region of Agboville had 146.2 mm of rainfall, 87 mm above the average.
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