GhanaVeg is in the process of developing alternative export crops for vegetable farmers. The initiative in collaboration with the Ghana Association of Vegetable Exporters will have crops like curry leaves, Butternut squash and Okra.
Ms Jemima Djah, an Agronomist at GhanaVeg, told the GNA that as part of the development, there would be a guiding manual on the scientific ways of growing the selected crops. She said it was also to conduct research to help farmers avoid practices that led to the ban on some Vegetables from Ghana to the EU market.
The ban was put in place after the EU authorities identified that some Vegetables from Ghana did not meet their quality standards. GhanaVeg had been working with stakeholders in the industry to help Ghana overturn the ban.
