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Cacao trees across the Sinfra department in southern Sassandra-Marahoué district, Ivory Coast, usually experience a very mild little dry season, with late July and August rainfalls sensibly contributing to the plants’ water balance. This season, however, the trees had to tap into the water resilience accumulated throughout May and June earlier than normal to cope with the lack […]

In the Tano South district in the Ahafo region of Ghana, the last two weeks have seen constant and abundant rainfalls, which is contrary to the norm. However, since April the precipitations have been on par with the past or, at times, even below average. The distribution of rainfall (number of wet days) and temperatures

In the West region of Cameroon, very heavy rains have been recorded over the past thirty days, completely filling the soil reservoirs and covering the needs of the plants. However, the excessive rainfall in a short period of time has left the region reckoning with damage to infrastructure and several buildings and, in the case of

The temperature in the state of Osun, Nigeria, recently returned in line with the long-term average for this season, after a warm anomaly that began in late April and culminated in July. The positive anomaly during the seasonal low in temperatures favoured the development of the crop and accelerated the refurbishment of the canopy by

The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam district in southern Ghana recently regained cocoa district status and has excellent potential for future production due to the young age of the trees. However, young trees are more susceptible to drought, so it is crucial to consider water resilience when assessing their potential. This district has received more rainfall than average overall

The average daily temperatures in Cameroon’s Haute-Sanaga department have been slightly above the long-term average over the past three months and significantly above-average over the previous two months, with only one short period of 10 days in late June when temperatures were very slightly below-average. For the most part, this generalised positive anomaly of ~0.3 °C

The department of Vavoua, in the Haut-Sassandra region (part of the Sassandra-Marahoué district of Ivory Coast), had a dry last quarter. This Ivorian department experienced a brief dry spell in the second half of May, which was compensated by a previous rainfall surplus in the first half of May. Rainfall has remained below-average throughout June

The Haut-Sassandrá region of Ivory Coast has received enough rainfall to cover the needs of the plants, but not enough to withstand a hypothetical dry spell. This region has received 30% less rainfall than the norm in the last two months and it has not accumulated any water resilience so far. In general, this would be a

May and June are usually the months during which black pod disease has the best conditions to spread. This is due to the limited number of dry days that are linked to long periods of continuous pod wetting in the field, which creates the ideal conditions for fungal infections. In the Nzema East and Tarkwa

The southwestern part of Ogun state in Nigeria has received 20% less water in the last two months. Despite this negative departure from the average, the total rainfall was sufficient to sustain the trees throughout the wet season and accumulate enough water reserves not to worry about the little dry season. As the wet season

The latest in-house analysis of the precipitation data for the Agnéby-Tiassa region in Ivory Coast highlighted a 10% positive anomaly in precipitation in the last 90 days. However, the rain distribution differed greatly from the mean and the wet anomaly comes from few, short wet periods. Since the resumption of rain this region saw intense

The Sunyani West municipal district saw a dry anomaly in the last month. That said, the number of rainy days remain roughly in line with the climatological average (slightly above). The district has also been wetter than usual since the resumption of rains in March. For what concerns the Black Pod disease, the pathogen had