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Workers at Ivory Coast's cocoa management bodies have gone on strike for a second day in a dispute over pay. Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa grower and the strike means no cocoa will be registered for export at one of the busiest times of the year. The Ivorian cocoa sector has been hit by strikes this year, though usually it is farmers who strike in protest at low prices and corruption. Work will resume on Thursday, when unions will meet managers. "The strike is carrying on today. No worker will be at his post. No cocoa will be registered (for export) today," Augustin Kouassi N'Goran, secretary general of the SYNASGFICC workers' union, told Reuters.