Ghana Plans to Boost Cocoa Output to 1.2 Million Metric Tons
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Ghana, the world’s second-largest cocoa producer, plans to increase production to about 1.2 million metric tons of the beans a year by 2015 because of new tree plantings.
As much as 600,000 hectares (1.48 million acres) will be replanted as part of a six-year program which ends in 2017, Yaw Adu-Ampomah, deputy chief executive officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board, said in an interview in Accra on July 15.