24-Hour Economy targets greenhouses, cold storage and air cargo to transform horticulture

Government is positioning the 24-hour economy as a major driver of Ghana’s horticulture industry, with plans to link greenhouse production to cold storage, logistics and export markets.“This is what we are working at through the 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Program, connecting production to processing, logistics, and markets, and building the enabling systems within which competitive industries such as our flower industry can grow,” he said.

Speaking on Friday at the opening of the 14th Ghana Garden and Flower Show, Mr Tanoh said the government’s peri-urban agricultural programme, Shiqpon, will connect greenhouses and micro-irrigated food production to aggregation, cold storage and markets.