In this photograph taken on September 3, 2019, a trainee learns how to bleed a hevea tree to harvest latex rubber in a plantation at Sikensi, some 50kms north-west of Abidjan, southern Ivory Coast. - Ivory Coast, Africa's leading rubber producer, has embarked on an ambitious training programme for 70,000 professional rubber workers to ensure the quality of its rubber production, which is expected to reach 2 million tonnes by 2023, according to the Ivorian Minister of Agriculture. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP)
La Côte d’Ivoire est désormais le premier pays africain exportateur d’hévéa. Un modèle à suivre. La filière hévéicole en Côte d’Ivoire, leader en Afrique, a produit en 2020 près d’un million de tonnes de caoutchouc naturel, soit 80% du latex du continent et pointe désormais au 4e rang mondial, ont annoncé mardi à Abidjan ses responsables.
