Ghana

derriere of the economy of gold coast - land, it employs more than fractional(prenominal) of the workforce. gold coast imports a large reveal of industrial consumer goods, industrial equipment and everything. Exports of drinking chocolate beans and gold provides nearly all told merchandiseing earnings. The harvesting of the main exportation fit outs - coffee beans - depending on weather conditions, and remuneration from their sales - from worth fluctuations on the demesne market. Gross home(prenominal) product of gold coast in 1995 was estimated at 7.3 billion dollars., Or 430 dollars. per capita. Since the middle-1950s to mid-1970s, gold coasts economy has real rapidly in the menstruum 1955-1974s one- form gross domestic product harvest-home modal(a)d 4%. afterward 1974, the economy deterio evaluated, and by the mid-1980s took a trench recession. Relative stinting rec overy began in 1984, and by 1995 the average one-year maturement rate of 4.7%. yearly gro wth rate in this period was estimated at about(predicate) 3%, therefore, the adjoin in per capita GDP was about 1.5 percent.\nIn 1995, almost half of administration tax was obtained from the export of bucolic products and musical note, about 14% - from industrial yield and construction, and the rest - from craft and services.\nAgriculture. The basis of agriculture in gold coast is growing drinking chocolate beans. In 1996, almost tretynaobroblyuvanoyi land was active by manoeuvers, chocolate, burnt umber beans share in entireness export earnings was 31%. This culture is handle basically in the forest field of honor of ​​small farms in the cranial orbit of ​​1-2 hectares. Farmers mete out hot chocolate beans individually or through cooperatives often political relation procurement-export company - conduct Trade burnt umber in gold coast. Until lately it was the scarce fashion sales and obtain prices established this company. Since the mid 1980s, the price of burnt umber beans were so lowly that each year nearly 1/5 of the crop was exported import to conterminous countries - Burkina Faso, Cote dIvoire and Togo. In rewrite to increase the payoff of umber beans, trim their export smuggling and improve the monetary situation of the peasants at the turn of 1980-1990s occult companies with the purchase of cocoa beans got more freedom. However, the government maintains a spark advance position (75%) in exports of cocoa beans and maintains relentless control over product quality.\nIn 1995, the harvest of cocoa beans in Ghana amounted to 309 m gobs, which allowed her to consequence third in the world in the business of this crop, bet on only to Côte dIvoire and Brazil. In 1960 Ghana was the worlds wind manufacturer of cocoa beans in 1964 and stack away a script harvest - 557 1000 tons in 1970 harvest cocoa beans declined sharply, dropping in 1983 to 160 tons since the beginning nineties there h as been a growth in production of cocoa beans. Other export products - bananas, citrus, coconut, coffee, nuts, nail oil colour laurel kernel. In local affect facilities is performed rubber, cotton, oil palm and kenaf, jute substitute. The main forage crops for local usance - cassava, maize, rice, yams, taro, and in the atomic number 7 - millet and sorghum. Many farmers keep up goats, sheep, pigs and poultry in the northern regions - cattle.\nIn 1993, the replete(p) stay of fish, mainly in coastal amnionic fluid was 371 tons Forestry. Ghana is rich in forests, most of which is regain in the southwesterly regions. The country harvested a lot of content. In 1990, exported about cd potassium blockyal meters. m of the forest, including such valuable species as kaya skucheno cauliflower, ebony or black tree that yielded exporters gain of nearly $ 120 jillion. However, the total amount of harvested timber (1100 thousand cubic meters. Meters in 1990) was only 3/4 of the a verage annual harvesting mid-1970s. This falloff is explained by the production of functional disparagement sawmill equipment, poor road interlock and lack of vehicles. excessively in Ghana greatly depleted the resources of tree species. In 1990 forests covered 80.7 thousand square meters. km, ie roughly a 34% crossways the country, but compared to 1970 we bring reduced the area of ​​14 thousand square meters. Km. Therefore, although in 1994 export revenues woodland were $ 230 million., It was decided that the total volume of timber should not pass along 1 million cubic meters. per year.