{"id":249805,"date":"2026-11-11T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-rubber-production-hits-2m-tons-as-farmers-shift-from-cocoa\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:00:18","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coast-rubber-production-hits-2m-tons-as-farmers-shift-from-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-rubber-production-hits-2m-tons-as-farmers-shift-from-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast Rubber Production Hits 2m Tons As Farmers Shift From Cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">Ivory Coast&#8217;s natural rubber production rose to approximately 2 million metric tons in 2025 from 1.8 million tons in 2024, an increase of 11.1%, as more farmers shifted from cocoa cultivation to rubber. The Association of Natural Rubber Professionals of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (APROMAC) announced the figures during an industry event in Abidjan. The country has become Africa&#8217;s largest rubber producer and ranks second worldwide behind Thailand, according to the association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"80\">APROMAC expects production to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110117.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast&#8217;s natural rubber production rose to approximately 2 million metric tons in 2025 from 1.8 million tons in 2024, an increase of 11.1%, as more farmers shifted from cocoa cultivation to rubber. The Association of Natural Rubber Professionals of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (APROMAC) announced the figures during an industry event in Abidjan. The country has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6560,3029,5958,6183,6555,5959,3030,7111,6559,1218,257,7544,9000,13283,254,7192],"class_list":["post-249805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cocoa","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-farmers","tag-hits","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-production","tag-rubber","tag-shift","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}