GHANA According to Ghana Business News ( in 2000 ), Ghana ’ s production of cocoa stood at 450,000 tonnes . Although still a commendable amount , its production output had impressively doubled by the end of the ensuing decade , its production in 2013 standing at 835,466 tonnes , according to World Atlas . It is an important crop to the nation , permeating from being found on their 1 cedi coinage , to accounting for 8.2 % of the country ’ s GDP and 30 % of its export earnings in 2010 , according to Ghana Business News . Despite a tumultuous history , from contributing 30-40 % of the world ’ s total cocoa output in between 1911 and 1976 , to needing intervention from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in the 1980s , there are still 1.6mn Ghanaian people involved both directly and indirectly in the growing of cocoa .