Feed Ghana Programme behind bumper harvest across Ghana

Minister of Food and Agriculture, Eric Opoku, has credited the government’s Feed Ghana Programme for the bumper harvest currently being recorded across the country.

His remarks follow complaints from farmers in several agricultural communities who say that while they have been able to produce food in large quantities, they are struggling to find ready markets for their produce.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, Mr. Opoku said the glut reflects the success of the programme.

“The farmers in many parts of the country are complaining that they have produced in quantities beyond the market there, and they are not getting buyers. In Asunafo South, the youth who participated in the Feed Ghana Programme came to me and said that they have been harvesting the rice in quantities, and they are looking for a market.

“So, it is not the case that these are isolated cases. What is happening now is a nationwide bumper harvest that Ghana is experiencing,” he said.

The minister explained that the initiative was designed to encourage mass participation in agriculture.

“We launched the Feed Ghana Programme. The first leg of that programme is to campaign for mass participation in the programme. We campaigned that individual households must have backyard gardens, and SHS must have school farms.

“From the beginning of the campaign up to today, we have on record that 129 SHS are participating. We also campaigned for church and faith-based organisations to enter the programme. We have records of churches, and we have some records that have directed their branches with fertile lands to participate in the programme. Even state agencies are participating,” he noted.

Mr. Opoku added that while agriculture is largely private-sector-led, the government’s role in providing an enabling environment has been crucial to sustaining output.

“We must admit that the agricultural space is private sector-led. So when the government creates that continual atmosphere, and they take advantage of some of them, certainly, they see some of these things. The weather has also been favourable, so the results are a bumper harvest, which we anticipated at the beginning of the programme,” he explained.

He further hinted that the glut could intensify in the coming months, as most of the produce currently on the market is from the southern sector, while harvests from the northern belt are yet to reach markets.