GDP from Agriculture in Ghana decreased to 9612.30 GHS Million in the second quarter of 2025 from 11493.63 GHS Million in the first quarter of 2025. This dataset provides - Ghana Gdp From Agriculture- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The Ghana Agriculture Market Report is Segmented by Commodity Type (Cereals and Grains, Oilseeds and Pulses, and More). The Report Provides Production Analysis (Volume), Consumption Analysis (Value and Volume), Import Analysis (Value and Volume), Export Analysis (Value and Volume), and Price Trend Analysis. The Market Forecasts are Provided in Terms of Value (USD) and Volume (Metric Tons).

In 2023, the share of value added by the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector to the gross domestic product in Ghana stood at 21.1 percent. Between 1960 and 2023, the figure dropped by 19.75 percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory.

Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Cassava data was reported at 19,137,940.000 Metric Ton in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 17,798,217.000 Metric Ton for 2016. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Cassava data is updated yearly, averaging 9,731,000.000 Metric Ton from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2017, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 19,137,940.000 Metric Ton in 2017 and a record low of 5,662,000.000 Metric Ton in 1992. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Cassava data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ghana – Table GH.B002: Agricultural Production: Primary Crops.

Ghana Compact - Agriculture - Post-Harvest

Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Rice: Paddy data was reported at 721,610.000 Metric Ton in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 687,680.000 Metric Ton for 2016. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Rice: Paddy data is updated yearly, averaging 249,999.911 Metric Ton from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2017, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 721,610.000 Metric Ton in 2017 and a record low of 131,500.000 Metric Ton in 1992. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Rice: Paddy data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ghana – Table GH.B002: Agricultural Production: Primary Crops.

Actual value and historical data chart for Ghana Employment In Agriculture Percent Of Total Employment

Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Maize data was reported at 1,985,800.000 Metric Ton in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,721,910.000 Metric Ton for 2016. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Maize data is updated yearly, averaging 1,188,836.064 Metric Ton from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2017, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,985,800.000 Metric Ton in 2017 and a record low of 730,600.000 Metric Ton in 1992. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Maize data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ghana – Table GH.B002: Agricultural Production: Primary Crops.

Abstract

The AGRIS Ghana Pilot test was implemented in 4 districts of the Ashanti Region (Ahafo Ano South, Asante Akim North, Ejura Sekye Dumase, and Sekyere Afram Plains) in February 2018, to collect information on: - Crop and livestock production as well as data on farm characteristics, diversification and structures; - Farm revenues and expenses; - Type of labour used by the agricultural holding; - Farming practices and their linkages with the natural environment; - Farm machinery, equipment and assets.

The general objective of the pilot was to customize AGRIS instruments and methodologies for adoption as a standard tool to efficiently gather relevant and reliable agricultural data for policy making and monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The specific objectives of the AGRIS Ghana pilot were as follows: - Elaborate the overall set up of AGRIS in Ghana; - Customize the content of the AGRIS questionnaire to the Ghanaian context; - Assess the overall efficiency of the customized, integrated questionnaires and their feasibility in terms of length, flow, use of Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), and integration of core and rotating modules; - Assess the difficulty and relevance of each question, each section and each generic questionnaire for different types of holdings; - Test the use of Survey Solutions software to implement CAPI data collection, and the current version of the CAPI questionnaires; - Assess the relevance of the training material developed to train survey enumerators and supervisors.

Geographic coverage

District level coverage. The 4 district covered by the survey were: - Ahafo Ano South (CORE+PME) - Asante Akim North (CORE+MEA) - Ejura Sekye Dumase (CORE+LABOUR) - Sekyere Afram Plains (CORE+ECO)

Analysis unit

Agricultural holdings in the household sector

Universe

All households, agricultural or not, in the 4 surveyed districts.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Definition of Agricultural Holding As stated in the manual of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (FAO, 2015), an agricultural holding is defined as an economic unit of agricultural production under single management comprising all livestock and poultry kept, and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production purposes, without regards to title, legal form, or size. Single management may be exercised by an individual or household, jointly by two or more individuals or households, by a clan or tribe, or by a juridical person such as a corporation, cooperative or government agency (FAO, 2015).

1. The Sampling Frame The initial plan for the pilot survey was to consider as statistical units, agricultural holdings covering both the household and the non-household sectors, as proposed in the AGRIS methodology. For holdings in the household sector, no updated list of agricultural households in the country was available, and therefore a sampling frame needed to be established. To do so, the 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) was used to build a frame of EAs which were the primary sampling units (PSUs) of the adopted sampling design. After selecting the sample of PSUs in the four districts of interest, a complete list of holdings in the selected EAs was built. All households, agricultural or not, present in the selected EAs were listed.

Holdings in the non-household sector are by definition, economic units such as commercial farms and government institutions engaged in agricultural production. GSS and MoFA provided a list of these holdings to be used as sampling frame. Therefore, the plan was to use as the overall sampling frame a multiple frame composed of the two lists described above (one for the household sector and one for the non-household sector). However, after further discussion and evaluation, it was determined that the list of holdings in the non-household sector could not be considered as a reliable sampling frame for the targeted units. As a consequence, the data collected for the 80 non-household units could not be analysed to represent holdings in the nonhousehold sector.

1. The Sampling design A stratified two-stage sampling design was used for the holdings in the household sector. The PSUs were the EAs and the secondary sampling units (SSU) were the agricultural households.

2. The Sampling Size For holdings in the household sector, the calculation of sample size was performed fixing the minimum degree of precision required for the final estimates of main variables of interest. The variable considered to determine the sample size was the area of the agricultural land owned by the households. This information had been collected during the 2012-2013 Ghana Living Standards Survey 6 (GLSS6). Therefore, data from this survey was used to estimate the coefficient of variation (CV) of the variable of interest in the chosen four districts. It should be noted that the estimation domain of the GLSS6 was the region. For that survey, a two-stage sampling design was used and the PSUs (EAs) were selected in each region with the probability proportional to size (PPS). The measure of size was given by the number of individuals in each region, provided for the chosen districts for the AGRIS-Ghana pilot survey by the GLSS6. For the estimation of the CV of the households' agricultural land, it was assumed that the EAs sampled in GLSS6 and located in the target districts were selected in these districts with the same method of selection (PPS). Thus, the households included in the sample were supposed to have been selected with a two-stage sampling design.

The formula for the computation of the sampling size can be consulted in the final report of the survey.

The number of households to be surveyed in each PSU is fixed to 10. Therefore, the size of the sample of PSU is the size of the sample of the households divided by 10.

1. Agricultural holding definition As stated in the manual of the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (FAO, 2015), an agricultural holding is defined as an economic unit of agricultural production under single management comprising all livestock and poultry kept, and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production purposes, without regards to title, legal form, or size. Single management may be exercised by an individual or household, jointly by two or more individuals or households, by a clan or tribe, or by a juridical person such as a corporation, cooperative or government agency (FAO, 2015).

Sampling deviation

As mentioned in the sampling procedure section, holdings in the non-household sector were not included in the survey, as per initial plan, due to a problem in the listing frame provided by the Ghana Statistical Service.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

The AGRIS Core module integrated with the Machinery and Equipment module (Core+ Mea) collected information on household and holding characteristics, agricultural production and agricultural assets and machinery of agricultural holdigs.

A full appraisal of the contents of the questionnaires can be get by downloading the questionnaires in the documentation section.

Response rate

Out of 370 households planned for interview, 366 were interviewed (98.91% response rate).

In 2024, the value added by the agricultural sector to Ghana's nominal gross domestic product (GDP) increased to approximately 243.7 billion Ghanaian cedis (GHS), around 19.8 billion U.S. dollars. This showed a significant increase compared to the value registered in 2013.

Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops data was reported at 37,026,360.000 Metric Ton in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 34,156,353.000 Metric Ton for 2016. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops data is updated yearly, averaging 21,146,151.216 Metric Ton from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2017, with 27 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 37,026,360.000 Metric Ton in 2017 and a record low of 11,531,800.000 Metric Ton in 1992. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ghana – Table GH.B002: Agricultural Production: Primary Crops. The total agricultural production for all primary crops does not include milled rice

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Ministry of Food and Agriculture designed "Medium and Large-Scale Farmers and Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana" survey targeting large to medium scale farmers and tractor owners. The survey was aimed at characterizing the transition of smallholders farmers who have become medium- and large-scale commercial farmers in Ghana, assessing agricultural machinery ownership, and patterns of demand for agricultural mechanization among farmers in the country.

The survey covered a sample of 1843 farm households and contains data on their demography, farming history, land tenure security, farm land use, input use, crop production and tractor ownership among many others. This survey was designed to provide valid estimates at selected district level and not at regional or national level. Estimates generated from the survey data will be case study results for the sampled districts. Farm level and tractor ownership weight variables need to be used when generating these district estimates, otherwise any statistics without weights should be reported as sample statistics. Since small-scale farmers were not the primary focus of this survey, our random sample for this group is likely to have weak statistical power given that the sample was derived from the representative Ghana Agricultural Production Survey (GAPS) sample. Therefore, any comparison by farm size group should be done with caution and would require ex-post statistical power testing for the small-scale farmer's group.

Actual value and historical data chart for Ghana Agriculture Value Added Annual Percent Growth

Actual value and historical data chart for Ghana Agriculture Value Added Percent Of GDP

In 2024, and throughout the period investigated, the category of crops added the highest agricultural value to Ghana's gross domestic product (GDP) at constant prices. It stood at nearly 32 billion Ghanaian cedis (GHS), approximately 2.6 billion U.S. dollars, followed by the contribution from livestock production. Overall, as of 2023, agriculture covered just over 21 percent of Ghana's total GDP.

Basic statistical agricultural data of holders for 2011 major farming season: Total Number of holders in E. A Engaged in Crops production (cereals, legumes and pulses, stachy staplesCereals, vegetables) and livestock and small ruminants production. Gender Analysis of multi-round annual crops livestock survey: access to land, physically challenged (disability) holders, access to land, access to labour by holders, access to financial resources (credit) by holders, sales of farm produce by holders, total holders owning land for farming, total holders not owning land for farming. Challenges in accessing credit: High interest rate, delay in administrative procedures, long distance to financial Source, collateral.

Ghana: Agriculture value added, billion USD: The latest value from 2024 is 17.16 billion U.S. dollars, an increase from 16.87 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. In comparison, the world average is 27.33 billion U.S. dollars, based on data from 150 countries. Historically, the average for Ghana from 1960 to 2024 is 4.66 billion U.S. dollars. The minimum value, 0.46 billion U.S. dollars, was reached in 1961 while the maximum of 17.16 billion U.S. dollars was recorded in 2024.

Actual value and historical data chart for Ghana Agricultural Land Percent Of Land Area

Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Soybeans data was reported at 170,490.000 Metric Ton in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 143,216.000 Metric Ton for 2016. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Soybeans data is updated yearly, averaging 141,914.500 Metric Ton from Dec 2002 (Median) to 2017, with 16 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,977,000.000 Metric Ton in 2002 and a record low of 36,266.000 Metric Ton in 2004. Ghana Agricultural Production: Primary Crops: Soybeans data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ghana – Table GH.B002: Agricultural Production: Primary Crops.

Government spending on agriculture reached around *** million U.S. dollars in 2022, a considerable decrease compared to the previous year. Considering the period examined, government expenditure in the sector peaked in 2021, while it was lowest in 2015. Agriculture covered nearly ** percent of Ghana's GDP in 2022.

An agriculture-oriented society Government spending on agriculture in Ghana further reflects the significant role agriculture plays in the country’s economy as well as in the lives of Ghanaians. In fact, over half of the total land area of the country, roughly ** percent, is used for agricultural purposes. This is higher than the share of land used for agriculture in Africa, which stood at nearly ** percent in 2021.

A cocoa-exporting country The use of agricultural land for cocoa production in Ghana contributes to increasing the value added by the crop to the country’s GDP. In 2021, the most valuable agricultural products exported from the country were cocoa beans, paste, and butter. Total exports of these cocoa products reached a combined value of about *** billion U.S. dollars that year. Ghana is the second-largest producer of cocoa in Africa after Ivory Coast.