Minister for Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Hon. Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare has urged Agripreneurs, business owners and organizations to prioritize value addition in their operations.
Speaking at the African Prosperity Dialogues held in Accra on February 6, 2026, the minister said, it is about time that Africans embrace value addition over raw export of products.
Hon. Ofosu-Adjare highlighted that, Africans usually find it useful to export products in their raw state over the years. However, this approach hasn’t yielded the needed results.
She emphasised that, agripreneurs, agriprocessors and other value chain actors must collaborate in this regard to bring the best version of products for exportation with the real value such products offer.
She stated the government of Ghana through the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry is working hard to position the country’s approach to value addition by leveraging the natural resources deposits within its shores.
“our government aligns with the Global Value Chain Development Report 2025 highlighting the need for sustainable value chain and opportunities for Africa to integrate into technology intensive supply chain, and it must also leverage its abundant natural resources”
“So for Ghana, this means moving beyond exporting commodities largely in their raw state towards higher value addition processing mechanism.”
She mentioned that inspite of the zeal for value addition, challenges such as weak linkages between agriculture and industry, mismatch skills, gaps in infrastructure, supply constraints and duplication troubles this approach.
she emphasised that these challenges have inured the expansion and transformation of the ministry’s mandate to include agribusiness and the implementation of related initiatives, that seek to address raw material supply challenges by ensuring a reliable and sustainable quality inputs for industries.
She assured that the Mahama-led administration is committed to working tirelessly to close these gaps and create opportunities and strengthen economic resilience.
