Fruit and vegetable sector holds huge economic prospect for Ghana

The fruits and vegetable industry has huge prospects to widen the country’s foreign exchange earnings, Dr. Maxwell Billah, an entomologist has said. Dr. Billah, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana has therefore called on the government and her development partners to invest by providing adequate research funding into that sector. He said the nation lost US$36 million during the European Union ban on the export of fruits and vegetables into the European market between 2015 and 2017. The ban was placed on Ghana basically due to disease and insect infestation in the fruits and vegetable sectors. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of an agriculture fair held at Techiman in the Bono East Region, Dr. Billah underlined the need for the nation to take proactive and pragmatic measures to control disease and insect infections in the sector to enable the country to produce improved yields that meet international standard. ...