Tridge summary
A report commissioned by the Embassy and RVO identifies the challenges and opportunities in Ghana's underdeveloped food processing sector. The report covers the aquaculture, poultry, fruits, and vegetable sectors, indicating a reliance on imports and high demand for local processing. The aquaculture sector faces high input costs and low productivity, but there are opportunities for export and technical support. The poultry sector is plagued by high imports and low local benefit, but there are opportunities for the Dutch private sector in supplying seeds, agrochemicals, equipment, and sustainable packaging solutions. The fruits processing industry, with a focus on mango, offers potential for the Dutch sector in providing improved seeds, agrochemicals, equipment, and sustainable packaging solutions. The report outlines detailed business cases and can be accessed through a link, with contact information for the agricultural team in Ghana provided.
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Original content
Despite the growing demand from consumers, Ghana's food processing sector remain largely underdeveloped. Although one would find a retail shop stocked with vast variety of processed foods, only a small percentage of the food consumed in Ghana are processed locally. The reality is that Ghana's processing industry remains low in capacity, with a wide gap that is filled by imports. The Embassy and RVO commissioned a report on Ghana's Food Manufacturing Sector, identifying the critical challenges impairing growth of the processing industry, key potential solutions to resolving these challenges as well as opportunities (including opportunities for the Dutch private sector). Four broad sectors- Aquaculture, Poultry, Fruits and Vegetable were tackled under these objectives. Aquaculture Sector The aquaculture sector in Ghana has different fish-holding systems. These include floating cages, earthen ponds and concrete tanks, with floating cages being the most common one which forms about 75 ...
Source: Agroberichtenbuitenland
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