Coffee production in Ivory Coast is important for the economy of the country as

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is the second largest export commodity of the country. It was the largest coffee producer in Africa in the 1970s and 1980s, and one of the largest robusta producers in the world. Today however, Ivorian coffee production has been far superseded by Vietnam and Brazil. It ranks 14th in the world ranking.

History

Coffee plants were introduced into the country in the 19th century by French colonizers. Following

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, coffee production increased from 36,000 tons in 1945 to 112,500 tons in 1958. 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

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unsettled cultivation. 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.

Production

Ivory Coast produces mostly

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. According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations

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, production of "

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" (i.e., unroasted)

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s in the Ivory Coast was the following (in tons):FAOSTAT Dataset search (Côte d'Ivoire, green coffee, all years
for data through 2011. For data after 2011, data is fro
FAOSTAT3
dataset. Production of green robusta coffee output in the nation peaked at 380,000 tons in 2000.Ivory Coast targets coffee production of 400,000 T by 2020
Reuters (November 18, 2015). Production subsequently declined over more than a decade of upheaval in the country, particularly during the

First Ivorian Civil War The First Ivorian Civil War was a civil conflict in the Ivory Coast (also known as Côte d'Ivoire) that began with a military rebellion on 19 September 2002 and ended with a peace agreement on 4 March 2007. The conflict pitted the government o ...

(2002–2007) and

Second Ivorian Civil War The Second Ivorian Civil War broke out in March 2011 when the crisis in Ivory Coast escalated into full-scale military conflict between forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the President of Ivory Coast since 2000, and supporters of the internationa ...

(2010–2011). 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.

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