Deliveries of cocoa resumed slowly at Ivory Coast's ports on Friday, exporters in the world's top cocoa grower said, following a three-day strike this week by farmers demanding higher prices for their beans.
Roads that growers had blocked off in the bush during the stoppage had re-opened and lorries were going from farm to farm to collect supplies of beans sold by producers.
Exporters said only small quantities of beans were arriving at the country's two main ports on Friday and they did not expect deliveries to regain their normal pace until early next week. The strike, to demand higher farmgate prices for cocoa and loans for farmer-owned cocoa co-operatives, was suspended by farmers late on Wednesday, but a further day of business was lost due to a Thursday public holiday in the West African state.