While coffee and semi-processed cocoa are recording good export performances, there has been a drop in beans, Robusta and rubber. Provisional Ivorian port statistics show a 4.5% drop in Ivorian cocoa exports between the beginning of October and the end of April. At the end of April, exports totaled 1.21 million tonnes, with an increase of 80,364 tonnes, while international sales of semi-processed cocoa products rose by almost 12% over the same period from October to April, to

Cotton enjoyed renewed satisfaction with shipments reaching 114,558 tons between January and the end of April, up 8.3%. Recall that this includes cotton from Burkina Faso and Mali. Small performance of natural rubber with a 9% drop in exports over the same period from January to April, to 351,719 t. Coffee exports (Robusta), for its part, fell by 58% over the period January to the end of April, to 9,132 t, yet again, the March figures were revised, from 1,698 t, previously estimated at 4,692