Mr. Yaw Addo Frimpong, Ghana's Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture (in charge of Crops), has asked investors in the Thai rice value chain to come to Ghana and invest.
According to him, such an investment will benefit both Ghana and Thailand and the former possesses the know-how to help Ghana become self-sufficient in rice production.
Speaking at the Thailand-Ghana Business Conference on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at the Grand Fortune Hotel in Bangkok was Mr. Addo Frimpong, who is also the MP for the Manso Adubia Constituency in the Ashanti Region.
The Ghana-Thailand Business Forum: Partnership for Sustainable Rice Production in Ghana was the focus of the business gathering, which included leaders of Thailand's rice industry and the Ghanaian delegation to Thailand, led by Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC).
the University of Ghana, Legon, the University of Cape Coast, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the Center for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crop Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), the Competitive African Rice Platform, traditional rulers, metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs), and private entrepreneurs were among the members of the Ghana delegation.
The constable agriculture minister claims that Thailand, a global leader in rice production, can assist Ghana in its efforts to overcome the gap between its supply and demand for train while also producing extra to export to other West African nations.
The Ghanaian government and small-scale rice farmers are only able to produce 600,000 metric tonnes of the 1.2 million to 1.4 million metric tonnes of rice that is needed annually for domestic consumption, he added.
He said that the rice project, which had been launched some five months earlier, was continuing with the business forum.
He said that Dr. Siaw Agyepong, Executive Chairman of the JGC, was responsible for starting this procedure.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo instructed the Ministry of Agriculture and everyone in the private sector to do all it takes to guarantee that the country is self-sufficient in rice as a result of the enormous gap in demand for rice consumption in Ghana, he said.
Hence, Mr. Addo Frimpong praised the JGC-led private sector initiative to start a large-scale rice farming operation in Ghana, noting that the Ghanaian government has given the project its full support.
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