Short Term Goals
- Operationalize the TCDA :
1. Functional set-up - Develop operational Manuals (Best Management Practices for Production, Quality Assurance, Sub-contracting, and Monitoring and Evaluation)
- Develop four-year strategic Plan
- Make Planting materials available to farmers -2021 farming season
- Engage stakeholders and Strategic partners
- Commence work on Registration and the Tree-crop regulation
Medium-Term Goals
- Production and Value Chain Support
1. Farm mapping, baseline and farmer group development,
2. Planting material production and distribution
3. On farm support for sustainable production
4. Quality Assurance
5. Extension support services
6. Research and Innovations
7. Post-production
8. Purchasing & Pricing, promotion & Branding
- Research Support:
1. Undertake, assist and encourage scientific, technological and economic research in tree crops - Production and Value Chain support: promote
1. Promote and optimize land utilization in the selected tree crops in Ghana
2. Expand and improve the levels of productions of the six selected tree crops
3. improved production efficiency and quality of upstream and downstream producers
- Capacity building:
1. Co-ordinate and facilitate with relevant institutions to strengthen the capacity of:
i) farmers in best agronomic practices, pest and disease management, improved methods of harvesting;
ii) processors, traders and exporters in the relevant best practices - Licensing and regulation
1. By legislative instrument make regulations to:
2. Prescribe the fees to be paid by
3. Provide for the collection of information and statistics on tree crops;
4. Provide for registration and licensing of value chain actors
5. Provide for any other matters necessary for the efficient and effection of the provisions of the Tree Crop Act