Building agricultural wealth in Ghana: Is it time to do more?

Published 2024년 11월 6일

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Ghana's agricultural sector, with a focus on cocoa and non-traditional exports, is facing challenges due to illegal small-scale mining and other factors. However, the country has seen growth in its agricultural exports, contributing 2.62% to total national exports in 2021. The article suggests the need for long-term policies, public-private partnerships, infrastructure development, and technological modernization to further grow the sector. It also emphasizes the importance of education, skills development, and collaboration between industry and research. The government's efforts to sustain actions in agriculture and unlock investments could promote job creation and economic returns.

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By Samuel OKANG-BOYE The potential for building a thriving agricultural sector in Ghana faces challenges due to some recent choices impacting the sector. Illegal small-scale mining is one of such practices adversely impacting cocoa production especially. These poor choices are stifling growth in the sector, compounding the already dire production, storage and distribution systems, limited financing and weak technology that has constrained the sector’s growth. This will be injurious to Ghana’s agricultural wealth and it might be time to change course. It is time to walk the words of Vitor Belfort ‘legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I am doing for the next generation’. For more than a century, Ghana has recorded major gains in agriculture, the cocoa sub-sector singly, has contributed to building a formidable foreign exchange base with extended gains on an internationally vibrant chocolate and allied industry. Cocoa is expected to contribute about 3.75 billion GHS ...

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