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Table 2.11 Production of maize and soybean in Ghana and
neighboring countries (2009)
Item Country 2009 Production (tons)

Maize Burkina Faso 894,558

Côte d'Ivoire 680,000

Ghana 1,619,590

Togo 651,738

Total 3,845,886

Soybeans Burkina Faso 15,686

Côte d'Ivoire 679

Ghana
Togo
Total 16,365

Source : FAOSTAT

Table 2.12 Production of maize and soybean in West Africa (2009)
Maize Soybean

Country 2009 Production (tons) Country 2009 Production (tons)

Benin 1,205,200 Benin 57,308

Burkina Faso 894,558 Burkina Faso 15,686

Cape Verde 7,380 Cape Verde

Côte d'Ivoire 680,000 Côte d'Ivoire 679

Gambia 54,625 Gambia

Ghana 1,619,590 Ghana

Guinea 565,660 Guinea

Guinea-Bissau 14,000 Guinea-Bissau

Liberia Liberia 3,000

Mali 1,476,990 Mali 2,625

Mauritania 12,497 Mauritania

Niger 1,389 Niger

Nigeria 7,338,840 Nigeria 573,863

Senegal 328,644 Senegal

Sierra Leone 29,641 Sierra Leone

Togo 651,738 Togo

Total 14,880,752 Total 653,151

Source : FAOSTAT

Consideration of the entire West African region sheds further insight into the
availability of soy through intra-regional trade (Table 2.12 ).
This data provides a measure of confidence that a large pool of potential corn- and
soy-derived biomaterials is available to the Ghanaian health sector based solely on
agricultural output.
Ghana is a member of the ECOWAS, which confers benefits in the form of lower
tariffs on intra-regional trade. The current structure of tariffs in Ghana conforms to
the breakdown in Table 2.13 .