Ghana’s non-traditional exports revenue soared from US$2.45billion in 2017 to US$ 2.8billion last year, according to figures released by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA).
The growth was primarily attributed to the growth in cashew production and exportation.
GEPA’s 2018 Report evaluated the general performance of NTEs exports whilst providing public insights into the top ten leading non-traditional export products and a comparative analysis of the various sub sectors of export.
Chief Executive Officer of GEPA, Afua Asabea Asare, commenting on the impressive performance, indicated that the National Export Development Strategy, a comprehensive document to bolster the exports sector, will move the gains of the NTEs sector even further.
The NES, she said, will facilitate significant national development at the back of exports, since the strategy would clearly have a blueprint for all players in the clearance chain to act upon.
“With the National Export Development Strategy, everybody is going to find their path. It is like a roadmap to where we are all going to, which is over 5 Billion by 2021. It has spelt out what every organisation has to do,” she asserted.
She said the reduction seen in the exportation of some goods such as pineapple would soon see an increase due to measures undertaken by the Authority to scale up production in pineapple.
“We will be reaping the results very soon and because we have given a lot of the pineapple suckers out and by the end of December, we would have given 13 million out. And this is another strategy that we have taken to shore this up.”