Cote d’Ivoire’s Cocoa Production Drops In 2021-22 Crop Season

The world’s largest producer of cocoa, Cote d’Ivoire, is expected to see a marginal reduction in its crop output for the 2021-2022 crop season according to reports.

After producing 2.2million metric tonnes of beans in 2020, Ghana’s neighbor to the west is expected to put out 2.1million tonnes for the 2021-2022 crop season.

Even so, Cote d’Ivoire would still be putting out over 1 million metric tonnes of cocoa ahead of the second largest producer of cocoa in the world, Ghana, which is expected to put out some 850,000 metric tonnes of cocoa for the same period.

Cote d’Ivoire overtook Ghana as the highest producer of cocoa in the world in 1978. Since then, the gaps between the outputs of the two countries have been widening in favor of the former French colony.

In 2019, Cote d’Ivoire produced approximately 2.1 million metric tons of cocoa beans. The nation is expected to produce a similar volume of cocoa beans during the 2021/2022 crop year, according to Business Insider.

Comparatively, Ghana produced more than one million metric tons of cocoa beans in the 2020/201 crop season.

However, this is expected to decrease in 2021/2022 due to the expected reduction in cocoa beans production.

Meanwhile, Nigeria remains the 3rd largest producer in Africa and 4th in the world.

With a production level of between 230,000 and 290,000 tons per year over the last decade, Cameroon is currently the fifth-largest cocoa producer in the world.

Uganda is the 5th biggest producer of cocoa beans in Africa.