Figures by the Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) have shown that export earnings from the Agricultural subsector for 2016, dropped by 6.49%.<\/p>\n
Export earnings for 2016 is estimated at 371 million dollars compared to an estimated 396 million dollars recorded in 2015.<\/p>\n
Agric exports however contributed 15% to the total non-traditional export earnings in 2016.<\/p>\n
Of the ten leading agricultural export produce for 2016, cashew nuts led with 196.7 million dollars worth of exports.<\/p>\n
This translated into 53.02%\u00a0contribution to total agricultural exports for 2016.<\/p>\n
This was followed closely by banana exports which recorded 30.8 million dollars representing about 8 percent of total agric exports for 2016.<\/p>\n
Medicinal plants & parts and Fresh or chilled tunas came in with the third and fourth highest agric exports for 2016. The two products recorded 26.5 and 26.3 million dollars respectively.<\/p>\n
Their share of the sector\u2019s exports was 7 percent each.<\/p>\n
The fifth highest contributor to agricultural exports for 2016 was Shea nuts with 19.1 million dollars representing 5 percent of total agric exports.<\/p>\n
This was followed by yams which recorded the sixth highest of 18.9 million dollars and representing 5 percent of agric exports.<\/p>\n
The seventh and eighth highest agric exports for 2016 were pineapples and mangoes.<\/p>\n
The two fruits recorded values of 13.7 and 11.5 million dollars respectively. Their shares were represented as 3.7 and 3 percent respectively.<\/p>\n
Cuttle fish and squid came as the ninth highest agric export for 2016 with 4 million dollars representing 1.1 percent of total agric exports for the period.<\/p>\n
The tenth highest agric export for 2016 is palm nuts and kernels which recorded 3.9 million dollars and constituted 1 percent of the total exports for the period.<\/p>\n
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By: Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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