Ministry of Food and Agriculture
The agricultural vocation in the country had been declining as most of the formal institutes providing vocational training in agriculture had been converted into tertiary institutes leaving a gap for hands-on training in agricultural vocational training.
It is envisaged that it will help increase the volume of vegetables available and significantly close price variations due to seasonality thereby reducing agricultural contribution to inflation, and reducing import of vegetables to Ghana.
Greenhouse Production in Ghana increased from about 1ha in 2008 to about 4ha in 2015-2017 to about 23ha in 2021. Ghana EXIM (GEXIM) Bank funded Greenhouses constitute 56% of all Greenhouses in Ghana and this can reduce tomato imports by 2% using tomato import from Burkina Faso as the reference.
Within the post-harvest system, the packinghouse served as a control point where quality management could be applied to assure a reliable supply of produce of good quality. Packhouses also served as sites for the effective implementation of strategies designed to eliminate or minimize microbial, chemical, and physical contamination.
ECoSIB sought to increase availability and accessibility of superior quality seeds to smallholder farmers through scaling up volume of breeder and foundation seeds and develop a cadre of seed business entrepreneurs with the requisite skills to engage in commercial production and distribution of superior quality seeds in Ghana.
The project delivered an inclusive multi-disciplinary value chain intervention through a consortium of 7 partners providing market access, agro-inputs business solutions, market information systems and technical training and FBO strengthening.
