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geared towards the needs for raw materials of the colonial power, Britain, the dynamism of
agricultural policies in the post-independence era has been dictated mainly by the political
ideology of the government in power. This perhaps accounted for the confused and
unstable state in which agriculture, and indeed the entire economy, found itself by the end
of the 1970s leading as it were to low production and widespread food shortages. The
major lesson learnt from the chaos is that pragmatism should be the guiding principle in the
development of sustainable agricultural growth. It is this pragmatism that appears to be the
driving force of Ghana’s agricultural policy in this new era of democratic dispensation
where debate and consensus building have played a major role in shaping the future of
Ghana’s agriculture. That future seems to be anchored, at the moment, on comparative
advantage and trade. Through trade Ghana can grow and export the commodities in which
it has comparative advantage and import those it cannot grow.
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