The country’s important cash crops are cocoa, oil palm, cotton, coconut, tobacco, groundnut, and rubber.
About half of the country’s total cultivated land area is under cocoa, followed by cereals (25%) and roots and tubers (20%).
What are 5 cash crops?
Sesame (Beniseed)
Soybeans.
Cocoa.
Kolanut.
Rubber.
Oil Palm.
Cotton.
Sugarcane.
What are cash crops examples?
Cash crops are grown for direct sale in the market, rather than for family consumption or to feed livestock.
Coffee, cocoa, tea, sugarcane, cotton, and spices are some examples of cash crops.
Food crops such as rice, wheat, and corn are also grown as cash crops to meet the global food demand.
What were the most popular cash crops?
The most planted crops throughout the world are wheat and maize (corn).
Rice and soybeans are other key staples.
However, these are all relatively low-yielding and do not make enough revenue per tonne of product produced.
The highest yielding crops are sugar cane, sugar beet, and tomatoes.
What is the largest vegetation in Ghana?
The Deciduous Forest (DF) ecoregion in the southwest is Ghana’s largest ecoregion, with deciduous tropical forests scattered among a number of biological reserves.
In the south, the Tropical Forest Zone (TFZ) is Ghana’s wettest ecoregion, with remnants of its biologically diverse evergreen rain forest.