COTE D'IVOIRE / COCOA

Cocoa farmers struggle to make a living in Cote d'Ivoire, the world's leading producer of cocoa beans. UNOCI

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:36
• Production Date: 1 November 2012
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OPERATIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE - UNOCI
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; FISHING; AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; RURAL SOCIOLOGY
• Geographic Subject: COTE D'IVOIRE
• MAMS Id: U121101d

Description

STORY: COTE D'IVOIRE / COCOA
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNOCI
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: OCTOBER 2012, COTE D'IVOIRE

Shotlist

OCTOBER 2012, BROFODOUME COMPOUND, COTE D'IVOIRE

1. Wide shot, cocoa farmer watching his cocoa field
2. Tilt down, cocoa tree with two cocoa pods
3. Zoom in, another cocoa farmer, Eugene Koffi Anzoua, picking some cocoa pods
4. SOUNDBITE (French)Eugene Koffi Anzoua, Cocoa farmer:
"The cocoa farming is done according to the cocoa bean, we make the bagging until the growth is one year and then we transplant it."
5. Tilt up, Eugene Koffi Anzoua cocoa farmer picking some cocoa pods
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Eugene Koffi Anzoua, Cocoa farmer:
"A week after drying, we proceed to the marketing with buyers. If there is a cooperative, we deliver the goods to this which carries it to the port."
7. Tracking shot, Eugene Koffi Anzoua, Cocoa farmer, carrying some cocoa pods
8. Close up, cocoa pods
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Eugene Koffi Anzoua, Cocoa farmer:
"Currently the price of cocoa is fixed at 725f CFA per kilogramme, well as we are in a crisis situation, buyers are no longer able to buy at normal price and each comes and buys at his own price."
10. Close up, cocoa pods being cut to show the fresh cocoa beans

OCTOBER 2012, PORT OF SAN PEDRO, COTE D'IVOIRE

11. SOUNDBITE (French) Ali Fadiga, Deputy Commander to the Chief of the Port of San Pedro:
"All buyers who go to the cocoa farmer must respect the fixed price. Generally speaking, those buyers truly make profit and down the farmers. I think the measures are taken to respect these prices."

15 OCTOBER 2012, SAN PEDRO, COTE D'IVOIRE

12. Wide shot, exterior, cocoa factory warehouse
13. Med shot, workers unloading sacks of cocoa from a truck
14. Wide shot, Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bert Koenders listening to cocoa processing being explained
15. SOUND-UP (French) Maggy Kouadio, Cocoa Factory Worker:
"These beans, we pre-cook them to reduce the rate of humidity."
16. Med shot, baking oven
17. SOUND-UP (French) Maggy Kouadio, Cocoa Factory Worker:
"We cook these nieces in the oven not only to destroy everything like microbes, but also to give them the aroma of chocolate."
18. Med shot, separator
19. Pan right, different steps of cocoa processing
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Bert Koenders, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cote d'Ivoire:
"I think this is one of the great challenge of Ivory Coast not only to export, but also to transform and create jobs here."
21. Pan right, liquid chocolate and chocolate cake
22. SOUND-UP (French) Maggy Kouadio, Cocoa Factory Worker:
"This is the pure taste of the chocolate."

Storyline

He maintains his field, he picks and dries the beans, he cleanses them, all in the name of quality. At the end of the chain a semi finished product which is ready for export to countries that consume chocolate.

SOUNDBITE (French) Eugene Koffi Anzoua, Cocoa farmer:
"A week after drying, we proceed to the marketing with buyers. If there is a cooperative, we deliver the goods to this which carries it to the port."

One challenge faced by farmers of this product, which constitutes 70 percent of the exports through the port of San Pedro in western Cote d'Ivoire, is the setting of prices during the 2012-2013 cocoa campaign.

SOUNDBITE (French) Eugene Koffi Anzoua, Cocoa farmer:
"Currently the price of cocoa is fixed at 725f CFA per kilogramme, well as we are in a crisis situation, buyers are no longer able to buy at normal price and each comes and buys at his own price."

In this situation, farmers are likely to divert cocoa as today they remain the biggest losers.

SOUNDBITE (French) Ali Fadiga, Deputy Commander to the Chief of the Port of San Pedro:
"All buyers who go to the cocoa farmer must respect the fixed price. Generally speaking, those buyers truly make profit and down the farmers. I think the measures are taken to respect these prices."

The UN special envoy to Cote d'Ivoire recently toured a factory where cocoa is processed.

SOUND-UP (French) Maggy Kouadio, Cocoa Factory Worker:
"These beans, we pre-cook them to reduce the rate of humidity."

SOUND-UP (French) Maggy Kouadio, Cocoa Factory Worker:
"We cook these nieces in the oven not only to destroy everything like microbes, but also to give them the aroma of chocolate."

SOUNDBITE (French) Bert Koenders, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Cote d'Ivoire:
"I think this is one of the great challenge of Ivory Coast not only to export, but also to transform and create jobs here."

SOUND-UP (French) Maggy Kouadio, Cocoa Factory Worker:
"This is the pure taste of the chocolate."