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Dry Ivory Coast weather may cut mid-crop, farmers say
2016-02-15 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Persistent hot and dry weather in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa regions has damaged trees and could reduce the quality of beans and the size of the mid-crop, farmers said on Monday. Ivory Coast's dry season runs from mid-November to March but farmers still rely on periodic showers to aid the development of the April-to-September mid-crop. This year dry weather and seasonal Harmattan winds -- which blow in from the Sahara and can sap soil moisture and reduce the size of beans -- have been...
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