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46 STiR coffee and tea | 2023 Issue 4 (August / September) Sponsored by: Book your place today: www.ami.ltd/event-capsules Single-Serve Capsules 26-28 September 2023 | Barcelona, Spain Media supporters: Gain valuable insights from industry leaders, including: Martyna Fong Director Market Intelligence AMI Eileen Gordon-Laity Secretary General European Coffee Federation Andrea Vittadello Sustainability Project Manager Mérieux NutriSciences Italia Connecting industry professionals to explore the latest developments and trends in the single-serve capsules industry (Source: World Bank. 2022 figures) Ivory Coast at a Glance Area 322,000 sq km Population 28 million GDP $70 billion GDP growth 6.7% Inflation 2.7% GDP/capita $2,430 Unemployment 2.6% Exports $16 billion Coffee farmers 100,000–150,000 Coffee production (2020) 1.8 million bags (108,000 tons) meters above sea level, such as Abbois- so, Abengourou, and Divo. Other cof- fee producing areas include Dimbokro, Bongouanou, Gagnoa, Danane, Agbo- ville, Daloa, San Pedro, Soubre and Sas- sandra. Cote d'Ivoire borders Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Burkina Faso, with a southern boundary running along the Gulf of Guinea. With a total area of 322,000 square kilometers, Ivory Coast is about the same size as Vietnam. A small portion of the national cof- fee crop comprises arabusta, a rare West African coffee hybrid introduced in the country in the 1960s at the instigation its first president Felix Houphouet-Boigny. The variety is a hybrid of the arabica and robusta species. No precise figures are available on the country's output of this coffee type. Cote d' Ivoire, with a GDP of $70 billion, growing at 7% annually, has mandated its coffee and cocoa board, Conseil Café Cacao (CCC), to regulate the coffee sector and set export prices at the start of each coffee season. rainfall patterns that mostly hinder flow- ering of coffee plants. "Rainfall is critical for coffee grow- ing especially during flowering because the coffee plant needs water during this phase otherwise there will be little or no production during the season," she said. Ivory Coast's robusta is farmed in regions having altitudes of 300 to 400