Mr Kwesi Korboe, Technical Advisor, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has called for collaboration between the public and private sector in ensuring that vegetable exporters comply with regulations of the European Union (EU).
He said currently Ghana exports about 4,000 metric tonnes of vegetables and this could improve when the private and public sectors work together to meet the EU standards.
“Private and Public sectors collective engagement will help for this goal to be achieved extensively,” Mr Korboe said in Accra on Wednesday, at the sixth GhanaVeg Business Platform Meeting Agenda.
He encouraged exporters to certify their products and ensure that farmers adhere to traceability and production issues, which is one of the major challenges the export market is facing.
“Develop systems because it is a potential to grow for foreign exchange to come to the country through your activities,” he advised.
Mrs Sheila Assibey-Yeboah, Deputy Programmes Leader, GhanaVeg, noted that her outfit is driven by a strong belief in healthy and quality vegetables from Ghana through new ways of doing business.
She said it is GhanaVeg’s goal of developing commercial vegetables in Ghana to meet quality standards not only on the market but for citizen’s consumption.
“Our objectives include improving productivity in the vegetable sector, facilitating more efficient markets, including; linking vegetable producers and other value chain operators with the Dutch private sector,” she said.
She said the forum is held annually to engage exporters, farmers and the agricultural sector towards the improvement of the business climate, and further professionalising the value chain for vegetable production and consumption in Ghana and Africa at large.
Source: ghanaweb
