An Overview of Marketing of Ghana Natural Products

Ramu Govindasamy, Benjamin M. Onyango, Venkata S. Puduri, James E. Simon, H. Rodolfo Juliani, Juliana Asante-Dartey, Hanson Arthur, Bismarck Diawuo and Dan Acquaye

No 36742, P Series from Rutgers University, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

Abstract: The study finds strong correlations between natural products business performance and the impeding factors. The impediments include access to finance and markets, lack of herbal market information especially relating to external markets. Additionally, there is lack of processing capacity, while at the same time most if not all the natural products business operators lack technical training relating to product handling. However, there is big potential for success, the top ten traded natural products, may be exploited initially, both domestically and for export market, given range of perceived use. The constraints identified require concerted efforts from all stakeholders to recognize the importance of this sub-sector in providing opportunities to successful development.

Keywords: Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.36742

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