Jan-Nov rubber exports fall

TABLE-Ivory Coast Jan-Nov rubber exports fall

Tue Jan 3, 2012 11:32am GMT

 

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ABIDJAN, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's natural
rubber exports totalled 218,370 tonnes from January to November
2011, down more than 3 percent on the same period the previous
year, provisional port data showed on Tuesday. 
    Ivory Coast is Africa's leading grower of natural rubber and 
farmers are increasingly abandoning cocoa, seeking more stable,  
regular income from rubber plantations. 
    A political crisis in 2011, however, shut down all exports
for three months. 
    Following are port figures in tonnes for November: 
   
                 Nov 11     Oct 11     Nov10
 Abidjan          8,249     14,266    13,859
 San Pedro        9,137     13,327     9,513
 Total           17,386     27,593    23,372
 Cumulative     218,370    200,984   225,483
 from Jan                           
  
 (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; editing by Richard
Valdmanis)

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