The Agriprenuer Newsletter Department of Agribusiness Management & Consumer Studies

  By: Samuel Boateng The Agriprenuer Newsletter Agricultural value chain issues that require immediate attention include food waste, inadequate post-harvest management, limited market access, ineffective agricultural finance targeting, and poor packaging and issues regarding processing.   In Ghana for example, as high as 50 percent of products such as tomatoes, mangoes, pineapple, and bananas rot away annually after harvesting, due to the country’s inability to transport, store and process these agriproducts. Also, there are instances where there is an unlimited supply of tomatoes in Ghana's Upper East Region, one of the country's major tomato-producing regions, but a shortage in the Western region, which would drive up prices in the scarcity zones. The subject that remains unresolved is “how to ensure that agricultural commodities are uniformly distributed to prevent shortages in certain parts of the country and surpluses in others”. These imbalances result in either drasti...

By: Abigail Oparebea Boateng & Ama Jochebed  The Agriprenuer Newsletter Dormaa Ahenkro is a hub for egg production and the largest supplier of eggs in Ghana. However, it is alarming to learn that recently the price of eggs  in Dormaa Ahenkro  is equally expensive as it is in busy towns like Accra and its environs. Specifically, in 2018/2019, an egg of roughly 60mm (2.3 inches) in length was priced at 0.50 pesewas in Dormaa Ahenkro, meanwhile, it is now priced at GH¢ 2.00 in 2023, indicating that the price of an egg has tripled in less than a decade. Some blame it on the current inflation of goods in the country which has affected practically the price of everything, including the maize and other major ingredients required for manufacturing poultry feed. This has resulted in most farms folding up subsequently leading to a price rise of eggs in the market. These few firms now operating due to firms having folded up prefer to sell their eggs to Cote d'Ivoire which...