Cote d'Ivoire: Small-Scale Pineapple Growers Want More Support

22 October 2009

Bonoua — Karim Diabaté, looks questioningly at his vast 20 hectare pineapple plantation in Bonoua in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire. "I'm asking myself if if I'll get the money I need for in time for the inputs I need and keep my plants going."

For two months, 35-year-old Diabaté has made several trips between his plantation and the local office of the Central Organisation of Producers and Exporters of Pineapples and Bananas (known by its French acronym, OCAB) in Bonoua, 50 kilometres from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire's economic capital.

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