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Ivory Coast farmers ditching cocoa for rubber

2013-06-13 15 Dailymotion

Humble cocoa is the key ingredient of chocolate but farmers in the Ivory Coast, the world's leading producer, are ditching their beans for rubber.<br /><br />Last year, Ivorian farmers produced 255,000 tonnes of rubber, and aim to increase production to 600,000 by 2020.<br />Easier to produce, and less seasonal, rubber is increasingly replacing cocoa as the crop of choice. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Yvone Ndege reports from Sikensi.

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