Predicted Cocoa Harvest in Ivory Coast and Ghana 2016-2017: Ivory Coast is one of the world's largest cocoa producing countries, to improve next year's harvest yields in Ivory Coast and Ghana in desperate need of adequate rainfall. during the July - August period the rainfall in Ivory Coast is only around 40 percent. It is not enough to get quality fruits of cacao at this time of the dry season began to hit the ivory coast which greatly affected the farmers harvest in late December 2015.
in an August 18, 2015 report Rabobank said Ivory Coast will face another dry season from August 28 to September 5, and lowered its cocoa crop projection project for Côte d'Ivoire by 50,000 tonnes to 1.7 million tonnes for next season, while crops in Ghana will be 7.8 percent less than previously estimated, the bank said in a report Thursday.
If the weather is dry when added to the El Nino weather effect, crop yields in October may be smaller over the past two years, the El Nino impact reduces world cocoa production by an average of 2.4 percent, while Ecuador is the most affected country, according to a study by the International Cocoa Organization. In West Africa, El Nino causes output to decline by about 2 percent in Ivory Coast and 1.7 percent in Ghana.
A senior source of the Ghanaian government estimates that cocoa beans by 2015 will not exceed 700,000 tons, apart from climate problems, ghana farmers complain of a lack of supply of pesticides that have reduced crops this year
