Ghana’s volume of wood products exported for the first six months of 2019 tumbled by almost 13% year-on-year. First half export volumes dropped to 151,397 cubic metres in 2019 from 173,899 cubic metres in the same period of 2018.

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Ghana’s wood product exports decline 13% in the 1H 2019

Ghana’s volume of wood products exported for the first six months of 2019 tumbled by almost 13% year-on-year. First half export volumes dropped to 151,397 cubic metres in 2019 from 173,899 cubic metres in the same period of 2018, according to the Ghana Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission.

The corresponding export revenue for the first half 2019 also declined from Euro 102.99 million in 2018 to Euro 77.45 million in 2019, a year-on-year drop of almost 25%, as ITTO reported.

While export volumes were small there was a sharp rise in exports of boules in the first half of this year.