According to provisional port data, cocoa and cotton are performing well in exports while coffee is plunging. The country is the continent's leading exporter.

In the first month of its 2021/22 cocoa campaign, Ivory Coast reportedly exported 75,231 tonnes (t) of cocoa beans, 99% more than in October 2020, according to provisional port data released on Tuesday. In addition, it is not 15,504 t that the country would have exported in September, the last month of the 2020/21 campaign, but 23,766 t. From January to October, Ivorian cotton exports would have jumped by 40% compared to the same period in 2020, to reach 350,112 t. As for natural rubber, the rise was timid, around 2%, to 993,664 t. On the other hand, the drop was severe in coffee, with 27,018 t of beans exported over the first 9 months of the year, down 55% over the same period last year.