Tamale, the capital city of Ghana’s Northern Region, is ripe with opportunity, particularly for entrepreneurs and investors wanting to establish businesses in agro-processing or hospitality. Another sector where the city and the immediate surrounding area can compete is agriculture and agro-processing, says Nketsia-Tabiri. “Tamale is unique in the sense that it services such a huge region and is very flat. The city is quite concentrated and then you have all of this arable land around it.”He mentions tomatoes and mango as two crops that could provide processing potential. “Tomatoes is a burgeoning industry; however, the existing farmers produce a lot and much of it goes to waste as there is no functioning processing plant.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 20, 2021 09:56 UTC