Coffee production in Ivory Coast

Coffee production in Ivory Coast is important for the economy of the country as coffee is the second largest export commodity of the country.[1] It was the largest coffee producer in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s,[2] and one of the largest robusta producers in the world.[3] Today however, Ivorian coffee production has been far superseded by Vietnam and Brazil. It now ranks 14th in the world ranking.

## History

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Coffee plants were introduced into the country in the 19th century by French colonizers.[4] Following World War II, coffee production increased from 36,000 tons in 1945 to 112,500 tons in 1958.[5] 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.[1] 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.[6]

## Production

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Ivory Coast produces mostly robusta coffee.[7]

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):[8]

Year  | Coffee
Produced
(tons)

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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.[9] 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).[9] 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.[9]

## See also

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* Coffee portal
* Africa portal

* List of countries by coffee production

## References

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1. ^ a b "Fifteen Ivory Coast Coffee and Cocoa Regulators Sentenced to Prison". Daily Coffee News. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
2. ^ Hamilton 2004, p. 60.
3. ^ "Coffee From Around The World". National Coffee Association of U.S.A., Inc. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
4. ^ Habeeb 2014, p. 55.
5. ^ Thurston, Morris & Steiman 2013, p. 253.
6. ^ Skinner 1964, p. 5.
7. ^ "Ivory Coast targets coffee production of 400,000 T by 2020". Reuters. 18 November 2014. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
8. ^ FAOSTAT Dataset search (Côte d'Ivoire, green coffee, all years) for data through 2011. For data after 2011, data is from FAOSTAT3 dataset.
9. ^ a b c Ivory Coast targets coffee production of 400,000 T by 2020, Reuters (November 18, 2015).

## Bibliography

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* Habeeb, William Mark (2 September 2014). Ivory Coast. Mason Crest. ISBN 978-1-4222-9437-6.
* Hamilton, Janice (1 January 2004). Ivory Coast in Pictures. Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 978-0-8225-1992-8.[1]
* Skinner, Snider William (1964). The agricultural economy of the Ivory Coast. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Regional Analysis Division.
* Thurston, Robert W.; Morris, Jonathan; Steiman, Shawn (10 October 2013). Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage, and the Industry. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-1442-2.

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Coffee production by region

Top 20
producers (2014)|

* Brazil
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Ethiopia
* Guatemala
* Honduras
* India
* Indonesia
* Ivory Coast
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Papua New Guinea
* Peru
* Tanzania
* Thailand
* Uganda
* Vietnam

* Coffee portal

Other cultivators|

* Angola
* Bolivia
* China
* Cameroon
* Cuba
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Guadeloupe
* Guam
* Haiti
* Jamaica
* Kenya
* Laos
* Martinique
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Philippines
* Puerto Rico
* Sri Lanka
* Timor-Leste
* United States (Hawaii)
* Venezuela

Lists|

* List of countries by coffee production
* List of countries by coffee exports

1. ^ Habeeb 2014, p. 55.

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