COCOA-PRODUCING COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

According to Reuters , cocoa accounts for half of Cameroon ’ s basic product exports ( other basic products being food , lumber , minerals , and fish ). World Atlas places its production output at 275,000 tonnes of cocoa beans . Although the government presented plans to increase production to 600,000 tonnes by 2020 , Reuters reports that extreme weather conditions and erratic rains are taking a toll on the country ’ s potential to reach its goal . According to Business in Cameroon , a large portion of the South-Western cocoa crop undergoes no national system checks , as it is illegally transported to Nigeria . The government has faced pressure from stakeholders in the cocoa business to fight this recent tendency after the information was revealed in a meeting in July 2017 .

Despite only being in the cocoa industry since the 1980s , Indonesia produced 777,500 tonnes of cocoa beans in 2013 , according to World Atlas . The country has about 1.5mn hectares of cocoa plantations , with its main regions of production in Sulawesi ( which makes about approximately 75 % of the country ’ s output ), North Sumatra , West Java , Papua , and East Kalimantan . However , many of the cocoa trees are the same ones planted in the 1980s , their age leading to a decline in productivity . Reuters reports that the Indonesian government launched a $ 350mn campaign in 2009 to bolster production , but encountered limited success as the replanted trees were still diseaseprone , and had both poor roots and poor bean quality . One of the failings of the campaign is its lack of an educational components , since 90-95 % of the farms are owned by small-scale farmers ( the rest being either state-held or private firms ).

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