Ghana invites Dutch businessmen to invest in agribusiness space

Ghana's Ministry of Trade and Industry has invited Dutch businesses to invest in the country's agribusiness space.

The Director of Value Chain and Logistics at the ministry, Papa Kow Bartels, said with more than 700,000 businesses on Ghana's companies' register, agribusiness accounted for only 0.44 percent, a huge gap that businesses from The Netherlands and other parts of Europe could explore to set up directly or partner local counterparts.

The director was speaking at the second Horticultural Business Platform meeting in Ghana's capital Accra, which also hosted an 11-member business delegation of agro-based companies from The Netherlands. They were in the country to explore business opportunities. The delegation was organised and led by the Netherlands African Business Council, an organisation with access to more than 20,000 African and European businesses with interest in doing business in Africa, as reported by Graphic Online.

"Agriculture employs 45 percent of our people, yet entrepreneurship in the sector is less than one per cent, leaving a huge gap. We, as a country, are working on our economy to become a major player in West Africa with a population of about 400 million people most of who are into agriculture," he said.

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