On the occasion of the Regional Dialogue on agribusiness to Sunyani, Sampson Ahi, Deputy Minister of Commerce, of Food and Industry, reaffirmed on Monday, October 13, last Monday, October 13, the desire of the Ghanaian government to exempt taxes on imports of machines intended for food processing.

Agriculture contributes 20% to the GDP of Ghana. In fact, the government's tax relief project, which is being done Still waiting, was originally announced by President John Dramani Mahama at the National Agribusiness Dialogue in Accra, four months later early, in July 2025. According to the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), this initiative aims to “reduce the operational costs of manufacturers, facilitate access to modern equipment and increase efficiency throughout the chain of value.”

It should also be entered in a context where major agro-industrial projects have been announced in the country since the start of the year. In April 2025 , For example, the Nigerian Dangote Sugar announced that he had obtained the green light from Ghanaian authorities for the construction of a sugar factory in Kwame-Danso, in the Sene West district, which will have a crushing capacity of 12000 tons of cane to , serif"> sugar per day. Last September, Filipino Nu Agri Asia Corporation é also announced é the r é location of ' a sugar project by mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style"> $129 million in the country, and Singaporean Olam has pledged to inject $200 million in units for the production of pasta and animal feed.

The government also aims to increase industrial capacities in strategic sectors such as shea butter and palm oil over the next few years. In July 2025, serif"> the The government announced a gradual ban, by 2026, of exports of raw shea nuts. The objective of this approach is to encourage investments in local transformation and to increase the export earnings of the sector.