The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG) has called for an urgent shift from short-term, politically driven agricultural programmes to a 20-year National Agricultural Transformation Strategy.
They contend that decades of fragmented policies have failed to bring lasting change to the sector.
In a report released on Monday, 16 February 2026, the Chamber urged the government to adopt a long-term framework capable of mobilising up to 30 billion dollars in investment and creating more than two million jobs across the agricultural value chain.
The Chamber criticised successive administrations for relying on three-to-five-year programmes aligned with political cycles rather than long-term agricultural development goals.
The CAG report said, Ghana’s agricultural sector had for too long been governed by short-term initiatives that do not address structural challenges. The country spends more than 2.5 billion dollars annually on food imports, despite having the potential to produce much of that food domestically.
According to the Chamber, while some programmes have achieved temporary increases in production, they have not significantly reduced rural poverty, improved farmer incomes or encouraged sustained youth participation in agriculture.
CAG estimates that a credible 20-year strategy could mobilise between 28 and 36 billion dollars in agricultural investment from the private sector, development partners, government allocations and innovative financing mechanisms around three to four times current annual investment levels.
The Chamber is urging the government, Parliament, development partners, farmer organisations and civil society groups to collaborate on developing and legislating a long-term national agricultural transformation strategy.
