The Business & Financial Times
June 30, 2021
Total expenditure allocation for the agriculture sector in the past four years, from 2017 to 2020, has stayed below one percent of government’s total spending in the economy.
The total spending for the agriculture sector in 2017, which was GH¢384.6million, constituted just 0.71 percent of entire government expenditure. In 2018 total spending on the sector rose to GH¢502.7million, which comprised 0.79 percent. There was a significant increase in the sector’s investment in 2019 to GH¢635.5million making about 0.86 percent. with GH¢576.9million being expenditure for 2020 constituting 0.68 percent.
These figures depicted the total for compensations, goods and services and total capex for the sector during the four-year period.
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