Côte d’Ivoire has excluded fifteen exporters and nine packing stations from the mango export scheme for the 2027 season, Agriculture Minister Bruno Nabagné Koné announced on Thursday 15 October in Abidjan. These measures are intended to strengthen the phytosanitary safety of the sector following the suspension of shipments to the European Union.
Thirty-three exporters and thirty-four stations have been retained for the next season, according to the ministry. Mango shipments by air freight are also suspended for 2027. Authorised operators will have to meet the tightened control and traceability requirements.
Access to the European market has been suspended since 1 August, the ministry said. The government aims to resume exports from the 2027 season, but the minister did not give a firm date, as the decision to reopen also rests with European authorities. A revised health approach and an independent audit must be submitted to them.
The plan also provides 3.5 billion CFA francs to treat against the fruit fly the 20,000 hectares of the national orchard, spread across nine producing regions. More than three million traps must be installed before the next flowering, according to the ministry.
Controls must cover the entire chain, from orchards to the points of exit from the territory. Each consignment must be traceable to its orchard, its producer and the technician who supervised the harvest, the minister said, as cited by the Agence ivoirienne de presse.
European authorities intercepted twenty-seven consignments of Ivorian mangoes in 2026, after twelve in 2025, according to figures presented at the press conference. The ministry attributes these interceptions to the fruit fly.
The sector supports nearly 100,000 people, the ministry estimates. It puts the revenue producers earn from exports to the European Union at more than 7 billion CFA francs per season.
Mangoes at a market in Abidjan, 29 April 2025. Archive photo used for illustration, unrelated to the intercepted consignments. Jean-Luc ADON / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP under the same licence.
