The agricultural sector took centre stage in Ghana's economic and policy discourse through two key public events, the Citi Business Forum and Channel One TV's AgriFair and a significant international investment announcement supporting the cocoa sector.
From upstream production to downstream processing and market access, there was a shift from narrow interventions to full value chain thinking.
The Citi Business Forum and Channel One TV's AgriFair both provided platforms for multi-stakeholder discussions around agriculture, conversations centred on boosting productivity through better inputs, mechanization, and extension services, improving credit access by de-risking the sector for financial institutions, increasing public and private financing, particularly for agribusinesses and post-harvest infrastructure, promoting agro-processing and value addition, to reduce post-harvest losses and enhance export potential, strengthening agriculture research and extension, which remain weak links in Ghana's productivity challenge and facilitating better marketing and distribution systems.
Collectively, these discussions reflected a shift: agriculture was being treated less as a rural welfare issue and more as a strategic sector for job creation, industrialisation, and trade competitiveness.
