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Ivory Coast Jan-March rubber exports up 38pc

  ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast exported 163,643 tonnes of natural rubber in the first three months of 2017, up 38 percen
Published April 27, 2017 Updated April 27, 2017 01:37pm

 

Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer, is also Africa's leading grower of natural rubber. Exports have risen in recent years as farmers, lured by the promise of more stable incomes, have increasingly switched from cocoa.

 

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