date:May 30, 2014
her to stimulate production.
Ibrahim Cisse, who farms nine hectares in western Ivory Coast, said he started devoting six of those hectares to rubber four years ago because he could make more money that way.
Instead of losing my time and killing myself to try to fix my cocoa trees, I preferred switching to rubber, Cisse said by phone from the town of Tai. Since it takes seven years for rubber to grow, Cisse said he expects his first harvest to be in the 2016-17 season.
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