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Rubber Farms and Roadblocks

Is on a bus in the Ivory Coast. Steve Evans talks to a teacher who also farms the family rubber farm - and chamber of commerce president Jean Louis Billon on the economic consequences of roadblocks.

Business Daily comes from West Africa where the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has hired a bus to go from Ivory Coast to Nigeria. Steve Evans talks to a teacher who also farms the family's small rubber farm, who tells Steve about demand from China and how inheritance in Ivory Coast, passes though the female line, and not from father-to-son.

Plus Jean Louis Billon, president of Ivory Coast's chamber of commerce talks to us about the economic consequences of roadblocks.

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Wed 2 Jun 2010 07:32GMT

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  • Wed 2 Jun 2010 07:32GMT

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