Agriculture and Environment: Commodities

Table of Facts: Cocoa (Theobroma cacao)

Production
Area Under Cultivation - 7.5 million ha
Global Production - 3.4 million MT
Average Productivity - 459 kg/ha
Producer Price - $656 per MT
Producer Production Value - $2,232 million

International Trade
Share of World Production - 115%
Exports - 4.0 million MT
Average Price - $1,094 per MT
Value - 4,344 million

Principal Producing Countries/Blocs
(by weight)
Cote d'Ivoire, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, Cameroon

Principal Exporting Countries/Blocs
Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Indonesia, Netherlands, Nigeria

Principal Importing Countries/Blocs
Netherlands, United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom

Major Environmental Impacts

• Conversion of primary forest habitat
• Soil erosion
• Some use of chemicals

Potential to Improve

• Poor
• Current cocoa prices discourage BMP adoption
• Difficult to overcome the constraints of replanting the same area
• Full-sun cocoa requires more chemical inputs and produces more effluents
  
  

Source: FAO 2002. All data for 2000.