Under the auspices of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), the stakeholders, drawn from the production, processing, trading, marketing and transport sectors, held their maiden tomato dialogue in Accra.
The engagement gave the stakeholders the opportunity to discuss the challenges confronting players in the tomato value chain, its impact, and offered suggestions for policy considerations.
In an interview with Bohyeba Afriyie on Plan B Fm’s Ebanoosen, Mr Eric Osei Tuffuor, the Chairman of Ghana National Tomatoes Traders and Transporters Association (GNTTTA), said that the country would produce the quality and quantity to meet the demands of consumers but he calling for a mechanism to curb the over CFA 57 billion imports.
He noted that as a leading consumer of fresh tomato in Africa, Ghana, could not continue to depend on other countries for its tomato needs, therefore, the need to address the challenges in the value chain. He was hopeful that the meeting would be instrumental in finding lasting solutions to challenges in the value chain.
He said: “If we the producers and buyers agree to what they’re telling us and offer us good education, whereby the farmers will be able to produce the quality and quantity needed, they’ll stop going to Burkina Faso.”
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