Government targets rice self-sufficiency by 2028

He said milled rice production had risen from about 650,000 tonnes in 2024 to 960,000 tonnes in 2025, yet local production met only about 56 per cent of national demand, with 44 per cent still imported at a cost of about $500 million annually.

Mr Opoku said under the project, the government would support policy and regulatory reforms, develop 3,200 hectares of land for rice production in the northern savannah ecological zone, equip selected seed centres with seed cleaners, provide quality seed and mechanisation to raise yields from 3.

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku, announced this at a press conference in Accra yesterday, on a Regional West African Resilient Rice Value Chains (REWARD) project.