According to the 2021 World Bank report, Burkina Faso had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 19.74 billion dollars, representing 0.01 percent of the global economy.
Burkina Faso produced in 2018:
- 1.9 million tons of sorghum.
- 1.7 million tons of maize.
- 1.1 million tons of millet.
- 630 thousand tons of cowpea. (3rd largest producer in the world, preceded only by Niger and Nigeria);
- 490 thousand tons of sugarcane;
- 482 thousand tons of cotton;
- 329 thousand tons of peanut;
- 253 thousand tons of sesame seed; (8th largest producer in the world);
- 240 thousand tons of vegetables;
- 160 thousand tons of rice;
- 103 thousand tons of cashew nuts (12th largest producer in the world);
Tomatoes from Burkina Faso at the risk of rotting away at Paga due to inadequate processing between it & Ghana 
Burkina Tomatoes in a taxi cab at Paga border. Surplus products are likely to go to waste.
As an export commodity, the shea nuts, unprocessed shea kernels and processed shea butter, have been important, and in 2000 accounted as Burkina Faso’s third most important export; the first two export products were cotton and livestock.
Among countries to the south of Burkina Faso in physical geography is Ghana which had a GDP of 77.59 billion dollars in the year under review (2021).
Ghana’s top exports include the following.
- Mineral fuels including oil: US$4 billion (31.5% of total exports)
- Gems, precious metals: $3.6 billion (28.4%)
- Cocoa: $2.8 billion (22%)
- Fruits, nuts: $440.5 million (3.5%)
- Ores, slag, ash: $368.9 million (2.9%)
- Animal/vegetable fats, oils, waxes: $212.5 million (1.7%)
- Wood: $169.4 million (1.3%)
- Rubber, rubber articles: $147.7 million (1.2%)
- Meat/seafood preparations: $134.2 million (1.1%)
- Aluminum: $128.7 million (1%)
Ghana’s top 10 exports accounted for 94.4% of the overall value of its global shipments.
Ghana’s exports to Burkina Faso increased to $276million in 2021 from $264million in 2020. Meanwhile, its imports from Burkina Faso amounted to $50 million over the same period. Despite, the trade imbalances, Burkina Faso specializes and exports large volumes of vegetables, cereals and cattle to Ghana.
Burkina Faso’s natural landscapes have been rapidly altered by human activity. Conversion into croplands represents a major transformation.
Gallery forests host a wide variety of plant and animal species, making them a conservation priority. However, agricultural expansion decreased this to about 5,000 sq km in 2013, which corresponds to a 30 percent reduction within 38 years. A sure sign that the arid and mostly savannah Burkina Faso is seriously at it when it comes to agriculture. One of Ghana’s most vital natural resources is arable land, yet it is unable to meet all her food production needs, a gap filled by Burkina Faso from time to time. Occasionally, Ghana experiences food glut which becomes a nectar for the countries in the Sahel. Itinerant traders come to Ghana to buy them out, only to return the produce to Ghana and sell, taking advantage of fluctuating prices in favour of sellers.
