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GHANA PRIORITIES IN THE NEWS
Agriculture is a significant contributor to the Ghanaian economy and an important source of employment, with over 40% of all workers engaged in farming. Increasing agricultural output is an important policy goal of the government, and can be achieved through three main mechanisms: increasing area under cultivation, improving the yield, and reducing post-harvest losses, all areas in which there’s currently room for improvement.
An article published in Daily Graphic reports on a new research paper that highlights actions to increase agricultural output.
The research paper is released by Ghana Priorities, a collaboration between the National Development Planning Commission and Copenhagen Consensus.
To improve the agricultural sector’s production efficiency and post-harvest management, Robert Darko Osei, Freda Asem, Charles Yaw Okyere, Wilson Appiah-Kubi, Justina Onumah and Yaw Ofori-Appiah from the University of Ghana and Brad Wong of Copenhagen Consensus analysed the cost and benefits of improved seeds and fertilizer, irrigation and mechanization to increase yields, and warehouses to reduce post-harvest losses.
You can read the full newspaper article here.
I will keep you informed with additional updates from this project.
Kind regards
Ralph Nordjo, Ph.D.
About the Project:
Ghana Priorities, a partnership between the National Development Planning Commission and Copenhagen Consensus Center, is working with stakeholders across the country to identify, analyse, and prioritise the smartest solutions to Ghana's challenges. It has commissioned some of the best economists in Ghana and the world to calculate the social, environmental and economic costs and benefits of policy proposals. Research papers in the project deal with everything from health challenges to boosting agricultural performance, from education to strengthening the industrial sector.
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