BOORE, Ivory Coast: Once a cocoa planter, Ferdinand Konan Yao has joined the ranks of fellow farmers who have abandoned Ivory Coast’s top cash crop to work in clandestine gold mines buried deep in the plantations.
“It hasn’t rained for more than five years and cocoa’s no longer worth anything,” said Yao, sporting a cowboy hat.
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