Sponsor: Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry
Period of Consultations: Fri February 20, 2026 to Tue March 31, 2026This National Agribusiness Policy (NAP) has been prepared by the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry (MoTAI) in consultation with key Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), private-sector associations, development partners, and academic and research institutions through various national and regional stakeholder fora. The Policy provides a ten-year national framework to transform Ghana’s agribusiness ecosystem into a competitive, inclusive, and climate-resilient engine of growth, industrialisation, food security, and job creation. It should be read alongside existing national policies, including the National Agriculture Policy (2010), Ghana CARES, the Feed Industry Programme, the 24-Hour Economy Framework, Export24, and Ghana’s Industrial Transformation Programme.
Ghana’s ambition to achieve sustained economic growth, quality employment, food and nutrition security, and export competitiveness depends critically on transforming its agribusiness sector. Agribusiness links farms to factories and markets, supports rural livelihoods, supplies industry, and contributes significantly to trade and foreign exchange earnings. Despite its importance, Ghana’s agribusiness system continues to underperform relative to its potential due to fragmentation, high transaction costs, regulatory complexity, weak value-chain coordination, and limited private investment.
The National Agribusiness Policy (2026-2036) provides a coherent national framework to address these constraints and reposition agribusiness as a competitive, inclusive, climate-resilient, and private-sector-led engine of industrialisation and growth. Covering the full farm-factory-market continuum, the Policy establishes a single, predictable way of working across government to reduce uncertainty, lower the cost of doing business, and crowd in private capital.
Key Provisions / Thematic Areas
The Policy is structured around eight mutually reinforcing Policy Objectives (PO1–PO8) organised within a farm–factory–market framework:
- Institutional coordination and policy coherence;
- Competitive, smart production systems;
- Value addition, industrialisation, and market systems;
- Finance, de-risking, and investment mobilisation;
- Infrastructure, logistics, and energy reliability;
- Standards, SPS/TBT, and compliance capacity;
- Innovation, technology, and digitalisation; and
- Inclusion, jobs, and environmental sustainability.
Comments
As part of this process, we are inviting the business community, professional bodies, exporters, business associations, manufacturers, and other relevant stakeholders to provide information, strategies, research papers and any valuable information that will help shape this policy.
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