Record heat rots cocoa beans threatening Ivory Coast agriculture

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The leaves on the trees usually provide shade for the pods, but the sun 'is drying them up and they are falling' off the trees.

The leaves on the trees usually provide shade for the pods, but the sun "is drying them up and they are falling" off the trees a producer said.Surrounded by cocoa trees and intense heat, Christian Andre Yapi is forced to admit that the precious beans are no longer growing as they should, a major problem for the world’s leading producer.

The thermometer climbed to a record 41 degrees Celsius at Dimbrokro in central Ivory Coast in February, said Daouda Konate, head of the national weather agency Sodexam.Ivory Coast has not been alone in battling the hot weather over the region.Long-lasting and intense periods of heat stress plants, said agronomist Siaka Kone, head of the higher school of agronomy in the Ivorian capital Yamoussoukro.

“Human activity: what we consume and our industry,” only make matters worse, said Nahounou Pierre Lautti Daleba, a geo-economist and environmental activist.

 

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