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Farmers told Reuters that as flowers and cherelles, which develop into cocoa pods, were proliferating on trees more moisture was needed to help them survive and turn into bean-producing pods.

The beans are then removed from the pods with their surrounding pulp. Workers fill sacks with cocoa beans in Kahin village at the edge of the Scio forest reserve in Duekoue, Ivory Coast.