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What is the primary export crop of Côte d’Ivoire?

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The cocoa bean is Côte d’Ivoire’s primary export crop. Cocoa beans are the seeds of the cacao tree and are used to make cocoa and cocoa butter—the key ingredients of chocolate. Côte d’Ivoire became the world’s leading cocoa bean-producing country by the late 1980s and continues to dominate the cocoa bean market.