The workshop is being attended by 75 participants from the academia, financial institutions, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), development partners, farmer groups and agriculture input dealers.

The report  was prepared by experts commissioned by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a non-governmental organisation, upon the request by African Ministers last year to study fertilizer and seed system and the agriculture inputs subsidy programme in 10 African countries including Ghana.

In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, (MOFA), Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, called on the participants to come out with a sustainable agriculture input subsidy model that could make farm inputs affordable, accessible and available for farmers.

He said his Ministry believed that re-organising the agriculture input sector could contribute towards attaining the full agricultural potential of the country and achieve food security in future.

Dr Akoto said MOFA would start series of consultations with stakeholders to operationalise the recommendations and strategies in the document to make it a useful tool towards developing the country.