Le ministre de l' Agriculture from Côte d'Ivoire, Kobenan Kouassi Adjoumani announced that the country's cotton production for the 2024-2025 season is expected to increase by 6 percent to 367,000 metric tons, compared to 347,922 tons the previous year.

At a press conference, the minister indicated that “for the 2024/25 campaign, projections expect a production of 367,000 tons. According to him, the producer price will remain unchanged for the 2024/25 campaign, at 310 CFA francs ($0.55) per kg for first-choice or high-quality cotton and at 285 CFA francs per kg for second-choice cotton. An association of cotton farmers announced that planting started at the end of May and the harvest will start in December. Jasid pests ravaged cotton production in the West African country during the 2022/23 season, when production fell to