Cocoa farmers will receive 1,000 CFA francs (1.52 euros) for this 2020-2021 harvest season which begins these days, instead of 825 CFA francs (1.14 euros) during the last harvest.
Officially, this 21% increase is the result of an agreement signed more than a year ago with Ghana.
The two largest cocoa producers in the world have joined forces to impose a "decent income differential", a sort of tax of $ 400 per tonne of cocoa, on the large multinational chocolate companies, in order to enable farmers to earn a better living. their work.
But this announcement falls one month before the date scheduled for the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire and Alassane Ouattara's speech, appears to some of his opponents as an electoral gift to a population of planters who, since independence , has always been taken into account by the political world.
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