Export of vegetable to European market; Farmers receive assistance to address challenges

A project has been launched to help Ghanaian vegetable farmers and other stakeholders address the challenges associated with the export of their produce to the European market.

The European Union has placed  a temporary ban on capsicum, lagenaria, luffa, momordia, which are gourds, and solanum species other than tomatoes and potatoes from Ghana until December 2016 due to a high level of harmful organisms.

Sponsored by the Facility for Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Food Security (FDOV) of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, the project seeks to build the capacity of the farmers in the production and export chain to enable them to address issues of phytosanitary systems, knowledge sharing, infrastructure development, compliance with international standards and attraction of financial intermediation for the chain actors.

It is being executed by the Centre of Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI), a non-governmental organisation, together with GAVEX,