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Countries by coconut production in 2020. This is a list of countries by coconut production from the years 2017 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production of coconuts in 2022 was 62,409,431 metric tonnes, down 0.6% from 62,791,068 tonnes in 2021. [1]
According to the UN FAO, Indonesia overtook Ghana and became the second-largest producer worldwide in 2006. [4] The World Cocoa Foundation provides significantly lower figures for Indonesia, but concurs that it is the largest producer of cocoa beans outside of West Africa. [9] Large chocolate producers such as Cadbury, Hershey's, and Nestle buy ...
1.9 million tons of cocoa (largest producer in the world); 1.9 million tons of sugar cane; 1.8 million tons of plantain (8th largest producer in the world); 1 million tons of maize; 688 thousand tons of cashew nuts (3rd largest producer in the world, behind Vietnam and India); 461 thousand tons of natural rubber; 397 thousand tons of banana;
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are the world's largest and second largest cocoa producers, respectively, together accounting for 65% of the global cocoa supply as of 2024. [1] In 2017, a 20% drop in global cocoa prices negatively impacted the livelihoods of millions of cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, prompting the presidents of both countries to sign an agreement for a strategic ...
Chocolate prices have exploded—as has the wealth of Mars and Ferrero family empires, outsizing two of the world’s top cocoa-producing countries Prarthana Prakash April 24, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Although Ghana was the world's largest cocoa producer in the early 1960s, by the early 1980s production had dwindled almost to the point of insignificance. The drop from an average of more than 450,000 tons per year to a low of 159,000 tons in 1983–84 has been attributed to ageing trees, widespread disease, bad weather, and low producer ...
Reuters reported Wednesday that Ghana, the second-largest cocoa producer, is looking to delay a delivery of up to 350,000 tons of beans to next season, sending prices higher again.
Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.