Ghana is well recognized for growing cocoa and being among the top exporters of the commodity.

As they struggle to grow the lucrative crop, cocoa producers said they do not foresee a bright future for the production of the beans.

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The work requires a lot of labor, and the cost of the chemicals used to maintain the fields has increased recently.

Cocoa farmers in Ghana are increasingly growing disillusioned with the crop.

They say returns are low and that they are struggling to break free from poverty.

"Cocoa's future is very poor. It's very poor. It's very poor. We don't like it. We want the government to just increase everything for us because we spend time, our energy mostly on the side of the cocoa business, but after all, we get nothing", said Bensil Aryetey, a farmer.

Millions of small farmers in Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together grow 60 percent of the world's cocoa, live in grinding poverty.