Abidjan, Ivory Coast -The current decline in natural rubber prices has taken its toll on sales and earnings at agro-industrial business SIFCA, though the West Africa-based group is preparing the ground for better times ahead. SIFCA, which grows, processes and markets vegetable oil, natural rubber and sugar cane, reported a 60-percent year-on-year decline in profits to ?36.5 million for 2013, on consolidated net sales of ?779 million - 5 percent lower than in 2012.
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