Top producer Ivory Coast fears for cocoa output after rains

"Thirty years I've been in cocoa -- and this is the worst season yet," said Siaka Sylla as he contemplated an almost empty warehouse at his cooperative in Ivory Coast, the world's top producer of the bean.Back at the Hermankono cooperative, Siaka Sylla is pinning his hopes on a better intermediate harvest next April.

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