Ghana's cocoa production may not exceed 620,000 tonnes in the crop year ending September 2007 because of dry weather, Isaac Osier, chief executive of Ghana Cocoa Board, told Reuters on Thursday.
"It's not more than 620,000 tonnes. That's the maximum," Osier said on the sidelines of an international cocoa conference on the island resort of Bali. "Last year's was 740,000 tonnes.
So we are losing about 120,000 tonnes. It has to do with the weather conditions, the lack of rains. The prognosis is not good for the year," he said.