Ghana’s cocoa production is expected to fall 16% next season
Ghana’s cocoa production is expected to fall by at least 16% in the 2026 to 2027 season, market regulator COCOBOD said, citing weather effects, the crop’s natural fruit-bearing cycle and disease, adding detail to warnings farmers have raised.
The regulator said the outlook in those two regions, which together account for more than half of Ghana’s output, had been aggravated by the combined effects of swollen shoot disease, ageing cocoa farms, and an increase in illegal gold mining.
COCOBOD said it has taken action to limit losses, including rehabilitating infected farms in the Western North Region, expanding insecticide and fungicide spraying and reintroducing a nationwide free fertiliser distribution scheme for the 2026/27 crop year.
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