Coffee production in Ivory Coast is important for the economy of the country as

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is the second largest export commodity of the country. It was the largest coffee producer in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s, and one of the largest

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producers in the world. Today however, Ivorian coffee production has been far superseded by Vietnam and Brazil. It now ranks 14th in the world ranking.

History

Coffee plants were introduced into the country in the 19th century by French colonizers. Following

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, coffee production increased from 36,000 tons in 1945 to 112,500 tons in 1958. After Ivory Coast became independent (in 1960), coffee production peaked in the 1970s making it the third-largest coffee-producing country in the world, after Brazil and Colombia, before the

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unsettled cultivation. Coffee production and policy are derived from the era when Ivory Coast was a colony of

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. This has attracted French companies to invest in the sector.

Production

Ivory Coast produces mostly

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. According to the

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database of the United Nations

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, production of "

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" (i.e., unroasted) coffee beans in the Ivory Coast was the following (in tons):FAOSTAT Dataset search (Côte d'Ivoire, green coffee, all years
for data through 2011. For data after 2011, data is fro
FAOSTAT3
dataset. Production of green robusta coffee output in the nation peaked at 380,000 tons in 2000.Ivory Coast targets coffee production of 400,000 T by 2020
Reuters (November 18, 2015). Production subsequently declined over more than a decade of upheaval in the country, particularly during the

First Ivorian Civil War The First Ivorian Civil War was a Civil war, civil conflict in the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) that began with a Armed Forces of the Republic of Ivory Coast, military rebellion on 19 September 2002 and ended with a peace agreement on 4 March 20 ...

(2002–2007) and

Second Ivorian Civil War The Second Ivorian Civil War broke out in March 2011 when the 2010–2011 Ivorian crisis, crisis in Ivory Coast escalated into full-scale military conflict between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the President of Ivory Coast since 2000, and supp ...

(2010–2011). In 2014, the Ivorian agriculture minister announced a new annual production target of 400,000 tons of coffee by 2020, about four times its present rate.

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Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...

Economy of Ivory Coast Agriculture in Ivory Coast

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