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Cocoa production in Ghana
Plantation divestiture proceeded slowly, with only seven of fiftytwo plantations sold by the end of 1990. 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 ...