Trade statistics (provisional) in Côte d'Ivoire published at the end of March reveal that sharp falls were recorded in the export of raw materials unlike cotton.

Despite the good recovery in bean exports recently, figures for the period October (start of the 2020/21 campaign) to the end of February show a 12% drop in cocoa volumes compared to the same period of the campaign. last, at 882,852 tonnes (t).
The poor performance is repeated at the level of coffee in the two months of January and February alone with a recorded drop of 57% in exports, to 3,878 t, according to provisional port data.
Shipments of natural rubber also fell by more than 30% over the first two months of the calendar year, to 166,183 t. For the moment, only cotton shows a jump of 21% to 60,700 t in January-February.