In Côte d'Ivoire, the National Agricultural Union for Progress (SYNAP-CI), made of 57, 000 producers, maintains its strike launched a week ago to denounce the blockage of coffee beans in Ivorian ports, reports RFI.

“The managers in charge of the regularisation, commercialization, and stabilization must tell us what's amiss. We will continue to put pressure and denounce until the last truck is unloaded,” said Moussa Koné, SYNAP-CI’s president.

"We're here, we can’t unload our truck. All the time they tell us "tomorrow it will be okay". We have been here for almost a month and a half, we sleep in the dust. Everything is going wrong,” complained a driver, interviewed by RFI.

While the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) indicated that the slowdown in the marketing system is linked to the decrease in ships frequency, the SYNAP-CI fears last year’s incident will happen again.

 For the record, last year, more than 700 trucks carrying cocoa beans were blocked in San Pedro and Abidjan, during the overproduction crisis.

Espoir Olodo