{"id":250106,"date":"2026-11-13T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-cocoa-output-could-fall-25-as-el-nino-threatens-harvest\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T04:00:18","slug":"cote-divoire-ivory-coast-cocoa-output-could-fall-25-as-el-nino-threatens-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-ivory-coast-cocoa-output-could-fall-25-as-el-nino-threatens-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Ivory Coast Cocoa Output Could Fall 25% As El Ni\u00f1o Threatens Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"83\">Ivory Coast&#8217;s cocoa production could decline by 21% to 25% during the 2026-27 season as an El Ni\u00f1o weather event threatens rainfall and crop development, according to the country&#8217;s national meteorological agency. The warning, reported on November 11, 2026, comes as the world&#8217;s largest cocoa producer faces reduced harvests and lower deliveries to exporters. The country produced more than 2 million metric tons of cocoa last season, meaning a decline of this scale could remove hundreds of thousands&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611120023.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 cocoa production could decline by 21% to 25% during the 2026-27 season as an El Ni\u00f1o weather event threatens rainfall and crop development, according to the country&#8217;s national meteorological agency. The warning, reported on November 11, 2026, comes as the world&#8217;s largest cocoa producer faces reduced harvests and lower deliveries to exporters. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250107,"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":[258,256,6560,3029,5958,6183,6555,5959,9140,7880,6559,1218,257,25815,11754,254,10413],"class_list":["post-250106","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-fall","tag-harvest","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-nino","tag-output","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"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\/250106","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=250106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}