Agriculture in Ghana

19 Aug

Agriculture in Ghana consists of a variety of agricultural products and is an established economic sector, and provides employment on a formal and informal basis. Ghana produces a variety of crops in various climatic zones which range from dry savanna to wet forest and which run in east–west bands across Ghana. Agricultural crops, including yams, grains, cocoa, oil palms, kola nuts, and timber, form the base of agriculture in Ghana’s economy. In 2013 agriculture employed 53.6% of the total lobar force in Ghana.

Because such a larger part of the economy is dependent on rain fed agriculture, it is expected that climate change in Ghana will have serious consequences for both cash crops and staples.

Ghana produced in 2018:

20.8 million tons of cassava (4th largest producer in the world, second only to Nigeria, Thailand and Congo);
7.8 million tonnes of yam (2nd largest producer in the world, second only to Nigeria);
4.1 million tons of plantain (2nd largest producer in the world, just behind Congo);
2.6 million tons of palm oil (8th largest producer in the world);
2.3 million tons of maize;
1.4 million tons of taro (4th largest producer in the world, second only to Nigeria, China and Cameroon);
947 thousand tons of cocoa (2nd largest producer in the world, second only to Ivory Coast);
769 thousand tons of rice;
753 thousand tons of orange (19th largest producer in the world);
713 thousand tons of pineapple (11th largest producer in the world);
521 thousand tons of peanut;

In addition to smaller productions of other agricultural products, like sweet potato (151 thousand tons), natural rubber (23 thousand tons) and tobacco (2.3 thousand tons).

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Author: cpadmin