Cocoa outflows weaken cooperatives in Ivory Coast
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on AIP
Cocoa outflows to neighbouring countries are disrupting the 2026-2027 season in Indénié-Djuablin, where fewer than ten cooperatives in Abengourou have shipped a truck to Abidjan in two months. Ehora Yao Léonard, president of CSC-ID, mainly attributes the phenomenon to the gap between Ivory Coast's price of 1,200 CFA francs per kilogram and Ghana's 2,100 CFA francs, according to AIP.
Fewer than ten cooperative companies in Abengourou have managed to ship at least one truckload of cocoa to Abidjan, two months after the start of the 2026-2027 season. Ehora Yao Léonard, president of the Collective of Cooperative Companies of Indénié-Djuablin (CSC-ID), attributed the situation to the outflow of part of Ivory Coast's production to neighbouring countries, in a statement on 6 November 2026 reported by AIP.
Ehora Yao Léonard notably blamed the gap between the price set at 1,200 CFA francs per kilogram in Ivory Coast and the 2,100 CFA francs charged in Ghana. He believes this difference encourages the transport of Ivorian cocoa to neighbouring countries at the expense of local cooperatives, according to AIP.
The CSC-ID president called for stronger border surveillance and for prefects, sub-prefects, village chiefs and youth leaders to be mobilised against cocoa trafficking. He also asked the state to take urgent measures to preserve the cooperatives' activities and the jobs that depend on them, warning that continued cocoa outflows could lead to the closure of some structures and affect the economy of the producing areas of Indénié-Djuablin.
