The Ambassador of Israel to Ghana, Mr Roey Gilad, has urged stakeholders within the agricultural sector to leverage revolutionary applied sciences from Israel to spice up the nation’s meals safety and financial system.
Based on him, Israel’s vegetable manufacturing and export sector stands as a worldwide chief, therefore, stakeholders within the sector ought to leverage on Israel’s experience to enhance on agricultural challenges within the nation.
Mr Gilad gave the remarks in Accra yesterday throughout an occasion organised by the Financial and Commerce Mission Embassy of Israel in Ghana to foster partnerships and enterprise relations between Israel and Ghana.
It was on the theme, “Bridging innovation and progress in vegetable manufacturing and export.
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“I consider that Israel can provide some options which are related to a few of your challenges. Whether or not we’re speaking about drip irrigation or greenhouses as a problem within the area of agriculture,” he mentioned.
The Israel Ambassador to Ghana mentioned the occasion was Israel’s approach of serving to Ghana to deal with problems with fundamental concern to Ghana’s financial system comparable to tackling local weather change challenges and growing meals safety.
The Ambassador introduced plans to collaborate with Ghana’s Ministry of Agriculture to develop a complete work plan for 2025 aimed toward enhancing the agricultural system within the nation.
For his half, the Minister of Meals and Agriculture, Mr Eric Opoku, outlined the federal government’s dedication to supporting the vegetable sector, together with initiatives to advertise greenhouse farming, improved irrigation methods, and export-driven agribusiness investments.
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He praised Israel’s success in agriculture, regardless of its arid local weather and restricted pure assets, and expressed his want for the nation to be taught from Israel’s experience and leverage cutting-edge know-how to spice up productiveness and enhance high quality.
“Furthermore, collaborations such because the one we’re witnessing right this moment between the Israeli Financial and Commerce Mission to Ghana and VEPEAG reinforce our imaginative and prescient for a sustainable and thriving vegetable business,” he mentioned.
Mr Opoku known as on stakeholders to discover significant collaborations and make the most of the data and alternatives introduced to rework the nation’s vegetable manufacturing and export panorama.
The President of the Vegetable Producers and Exporters Affiliation of Ghana (VEPEAG), Dr Felix Mawuli Kamassah, emphasised the necessity for revolutionary options to deal with the challenges dealing with the agriculture sector and was optimistic that Israel’s experience in agriculture would promote the agenda.
He highlighted the significance of resilience in agriculture, citing the affect of final 12 months’s climate-related drought, which resulted in vital crop losses.
The president famous that Israel’s revolutionary approaches to irrigation, greenhouse farming, and crop manufacturing may assist mitigate the consequences of local weather change and enhance agricultural productiveness.
The Deputy Chief Government Officer of Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA), Mr Raymond Rashid Kramer, mentioned vegetable export sector has recorded a big improve in earnings, with GEPA reporting $38 million in exports for the sector alone.
