Rains “should improve conditions quite a bit” in Ghana, the world’s second-biggest grower, and Indonesia, Donald Keeney, senior meteorologist at Maxar Technologies Inc., said in an email.¹⁾

In Ghana, the combination of rain and sunshine has been good for cocoa, and growers would like the pattern to continue, said Michael Acheampong, a chief farmer in the town of Kwarbeng about 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Accra.²⁾

• the world’s second-biggest grower