Ghana's cocoa output to reach 1mn tonnes and more in a few years

ACCRA: Ghana's cocobod regulator expects the country's annual cocoa output to rise to 1 million tonnes and more in a few years, boosted by enhanced farming methods such as artificial pollination, its deputy chief executive said on Wednesday.

"We envisage that in the next few years to come we will hit 1 million tonnes and above," Nana Oduro told a meeting of cocoa traders and shippers in Accra.

The world's second largest cocoa grower after Ivory Coast, produces around 900,000 tonnes each year.