The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an agriculture-based organisation, is to support about 1.2 million people in the country to move from subsistence farming to a market-oriented and diversified farming system by 2028.
The initiative is aimed at not only ensuring food security, but also building the capacity of the beneficiary farmers to earn more incomes.
This came to light when the organisation unveiled a five-year strategy plan to promote processing of agricultural produce to benefit smallholder farmers in the country.
The AGRA Country Manager for Ghana, Juliette Lampoh-Agroh, who announced this at the launch of the Ghana Strategy Plan 2023-2027 in Accra yesterday, said the organisation was focused on creating opportunities for the youth and women.
Partnership
The country manager, however, called for partnerships to help realise the objective of the programme, adding that no single institution can do it all alone.
So we invite you to come with us on this journey as we deliver the transformation and the impact required,” Ms Lampoh-Agroh added.
This strategy aims to create an enabling environment that will enhance the competitiveness of SMEs in the agro processing and the value addition sector as we also look to enhance the resilience of raw materials,” she said.
Ms Lampoh-Agroh further identified the lack of linkage between agriculture and industry as one of the gaps the strategy intends to address.
She also mentioned some of the crops that would benefit from the intervention to include maize, rice, cassava cowpea, groundnut and vegetables.
Background
Founded in 2006, AGRA is an African-led organisation that seeks to catalyse agriculture transformation on the continent.
She said her outfit was hopeful that the strategy would catalyse into an all inclusive transformation of the country’s agro food system.
By growing a competitive agro processing sector, Ms Lampoh-Agroh said the strategy would drive productivity, trade and resilience of smallholder farmers and also support livelihoods.
Source: myghanadaily
