Coffee production in Ivory Coast
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Coffee production in Ivory Coast is important for the economy of the country as coffee is the second largest export commodity of the country.{{Cite news|url=http://dailycoffeenews.com/2013/11/06/fifteen-ivory-coast-coffee-and-cocoa-regulators-sentenced-to-prison/|title=Fifteen Ivory Coast Coffee and Cocoa Regulators Sentenced to Prison|access-date=5 June 2015|date=6 November 2013|publisher=Daily Coffee News}} It was the largest coffee producer in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s,{{sfn|Hamilton|2004|p=60}} and one of the largest robusta producers in the world.{{cite web|title=Coffee From Around The World|url=http://ncausa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=75|publisher=National Coffee Association of U.S.A., Inc.|access-date=4 June 2015}} Today however, Ivorian coffee production has been far superseded by Vietnam and Brazil.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.{{sfn|Habeeb|2014|p=55}} Following World War II, coffee production increased from 36,000 tons in 1945 to 112,500 tons in 1958.{{Sfn|Thurston|Morris|Steiman|2013|p=253}} 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 civil war unsettled cultivation. Coffee production and policy are derived from the era when Ivory Coast was a colony of French West Africa. This has attracted French companies to invest in the sector.{{Sfn|Skinner|1964|p=5}}
Production
Ivory Coast produces mostly robusta coffee.{{Cite news|url= http://uk.reuters.com/article/coffee-ivorycoast-idUKL6N0T81TX20141118|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160305202618/http://uk.reuters.com/article/coffee-ivorycoast-idUKL6N0T81TX20141118|url-status= dead|archive-date= March 5, 2016|title= Ivory Coast targets coffee production of 400,000 T by 2020|access-date=5 June 2015|date=18 November 2014|publisher=Reuters}}
According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, production of "green" (i.e., unroasted) coffee beans in the Ivory Coast was the following (in tons):[http://faostat.fao.org/site/567/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=567#ancor FAOSTAT Dataset search (Côte d'Ivoire, green coffee, all years]) for data through 2011. For data after 2011, data is from [http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E FAOSTAT3] dataset.
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Coffee |
|---|
| 1965
| 202,105 |
| 1970
| 279,610 |
| 1975
| 270,400 |
| 1980
| 249,608 |
| 1985
| 277,082 |
| 1990
| 285,164 |
| 1995
| 194,968 |
| 2000
| 380,000 |
| 2005
| 230,000 |
| 2010
| 94,372 |
| 2011
| 32,291 |
| 2012
| 121,426 |
| 2013
| 103,743 |
| 2014
| 114,387 |
| 2015
| 127,000 |
| 2016
| 106,000 |
| 2017
| 103,514 |
Production of green robusta coffee output in the nation peaked at 380,000 tons in 2000.[https://www.reuters.com/article/coffee-ivorycoast-idUSL6N0T81TX20141118 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 (2002–2007) and Second Ivorian Civil War (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.
See also
{{Portal|Coffee|Africa}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Habeeb|first=William Mark|title=Ivory Coast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UILTBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT55|date=2 September 2014|publisher=Mason Crest|isbn=978-1-4222-9437-6}}
- {{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Janice|title=Ivory Coast in Pictures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aj5grzlSjFAC&pg=PA60|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|isbn=978-0-8225-1992-8}}{{sfn|Habeeb|2014|p=55}}
- {{cite book|last= Skinner |first=Snider William |title=The agricultural economy of the Ivory Coast|url=https://archive.org/details/agriculturalecon69skin|year=1964|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Regional Analysis Division}}
- {{cite book|last1= Thurston |first1=Robert W. |last2= Morris |first2=Jonathan |first3=Shawn |last3=Steiman|title=Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQh1AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA253|date=10 October 2013|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-1442-2}}
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