Clare Black – The Mail & Guardian

Clare Black

/ 1 January 2002

Virulent cocoa disease creeps into Ivory Coast

Cocoa plantations in eastern Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer, are seeing an increased incidence of a virulent form of fungal pod rot which has slunk over the border from Ghana

By Clare Black

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/ 1 January 2002

Ivory Coast farmers taste fruits of privatisation

Farmers in a key cocoa-growing area of top producer Ivory Coast are happy with high prices seen in the 2001/02 season and don’t want to return to the price stabilisation system dismantled in 1999.

By Clare Black