4th Edition
Date : 19-20 Sep, 2025

Venue : Accra International Conference Center, Accra Ghana
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GHANA & WEST AFRICA AGRI BUSINESS MARKET

Ghana is becoming the centre of Business and Agriculture transformation in the West Africa region emerging as a trading manufacturing, logistics hub with better and conducive trade policies & duty structure.

Government schemes like Planting for Food & Jobs and Planning for Exports co-located with 1 District 1 Factory scheme expected to attain agriculture & food processing self sufficiency and exports.

Agriculture Technology, undoubtedly the biggest demand and requirement in Ghana and West African region after pharmaceuticals, is identified as key area to be worked for employment and development.

Targeted double digit growth in crop production like maize (30%); rice (49%); soybean (25%); and sorghum (28%) from current levels & create 75,000 new jobs, directly & indirectly.

Ghana, with bilateral trade ties & agreements with its neighbours in West Arica and line of credits between Ghana and India & other countries, it is opportunistic to encash by supplying agriculture technology and requirements.

Ghanaian Agritech & Machineries importation towards USD 1.29 Bn in 2023. Major share occupied by India, China, Belgium, USA, Brazil, Russia, United Kingdom and Turkey.

ONE DISTRICT ONE FACTORY

  • The One District One Factory (1D1F) is a Government of Ghana initiative aimed at boosting the Ghanaian industrial sector. The Strengthening of the industrial sector demands the ready availability of inputs for production. The Government’s drive to industrialisation benefits agriculture by providing a ready market for agricultural products, reducing post-harvest losses, creating jobs and minimising rural-urban
  • As of August 2021, 49% of factories under 1D1F were agro-based.
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