AGRIC BUSINESS

The production of food, fiber, and bio-energy connects with contemporaneous problems of food safety, global warming, consumer’s preferences, consolidation of global corporations, environmental impacts, mega-trade agreements, and persistent problems of food access. In order to find answers to the problems that affect governments, agro corporations, farmers and consumers around the world, the issue of “coordination of specialized agents engaged in agriculture production” is a central one.

The agribusiness systems involves the coordination of all activities that contribute to the production, processing, marketing, distribution, financing and development of agricultural commodities, plant and animal products, and other natural resources.

Given Ghana’s long-standing tradition as an agricultural connoisseur, the opportunities for agribusiness investments are immense! As the gateway to Africa, the country offers easy access to premium markets. In addition, the availability of productive land resources for a wide range of agricultural commodities means that both input provisions and output processing activities continuously spell out great prospects.

Agribusiness should serve as the foundation of the Ghanaian economy to ensure it becomes the base force propelling the local productive sectors onward.

To date, traditional agricultural productions (i.e., citrus, banana, sugar cane) have failed to undergo gradual, yet planned transformation – failing to  broaden its pillars to encompass sectors, such as Agro Processing, green gold crops (i.e., grains, cacao beans, cottons), renewable energy crops (i.e. sorghum, sugar crops), and organic crops farming.

It is in respect of this that organization is currently embarking on the following: