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Ivory Coast: coffee and cocoa, the chaos…
The coffee and cocoa producers have organised a meeting in Yamoussoukro to denounce the “chaos and mismanagement” within the committee established by the state to revamp the sector.“The state wanted to entrust the management of the chain to the producers themselves, unfortunately nothing has changed for the better. People continue to sugar producers on the backs of poverty and becoming more and more the world agriculture, “denounced the president of the National Coffee Growers and cocoa (ONPC-CI), Vincent Séa Téa.
He said the management committee and the national committee, established in 2009 by the state, were created to replace all the management structures of the coffee-cocoa dissolved in the wake of the arrest of their key leaders, who are still waiting to be tried for embezzlement.
“Phyto-sanitary products are distributed to the producers when they no longer need them without any relevance to the agricultural calendar. There are no roads to deliver the products and there is no regeneration policy of the orchard fields earned by age”, Vincent Séa Téa voiced.
The Ivory Coast is the world’s largest producer of cocoa with 1.4 million tons of beans in 2009, representing 40% of the world production. The coffee-cocoa activity allows income to more than one third of the Ivorian population, estimated at 20 million, to live. It represents 15% of GDP and 40% of Ivory Coast exports, contributing to about 30% of the state tax revenue.