After the great success of agrofood West Africa 2022, the 2023 edition is now coming up as agrofood Ghana to take place from 21 to 23 November 2023 at the Trade Center Arena at the Accra International Conference Centre.
This important business platform for the Ghanaian agrofood industry is organised by fairtrade in cooperation with their local partner Geovision.
The rebranding from agrofood West Africa to agrofood Ghana reflects the growing importance of the Ghanaian market since the inaugural event in Ghana in 2013.
In addition to Ghana, fairtrade in West Africa serves Nigeria with the agrofood Nigeria.
And francophone West Africa will finally meet again in 2023 in Abidjan, at food tec West Africa.

Facts & figures on the
Ghanaian agrofood market
Please see full details of the 2023 event
Exhibition topics
A unique concept: agrofood covers the entire value chain – from field to fork
agro AgroTech
- Agricultural machines, farming tractors, harvesting equipment
- Analytical equipment
- Dryers, cleaner, silos and storage systems
- Feeding equipment
- Fish farming equipment
- Grains, grain systems
- Greenhouse and greenhouse plastics and equipment
- Irrigation systems
- Livestock and poultry breeding
- Milk processing equipment
- Milling and mixing installations/equipment
- Pesticides and fertilizers
- Poultry equipment
- Seeds, seedlings
- Stable equipment
- Veterinary syringes
food + bev tec
Food and drink processing
- Automation
- Bakery technology
- Basic food technology
- Beverage technology
- Coffee machines
- Confectionery, snacks and chocolate production technology
- Dairy technology
- Delicatessen and convenience food technology
- Distribution systems, table and serving equipment
- Fish processing technology
- Food safety and quality management
- Foodservice equipment
- Ice cream technology
- Ice cream technology
- Information and billing systems
- Kitchen technology
- Meat processing technology
- Noodle technology
- Refrigeration technology
- Screening machines
- Services and concepts
- Vegetable and fruit technology
Packaging
- Packaging technology
- Machines for imprinting of packaging material
- Packaging materials, means and aids
Printing
- Printing and labelling technology
- Paper converting and packaging production technology
- Materials, consumables and accessories
Refrigeration and air conditioning
- Refrigeration technology
- Ventilation, air conditioning and heating technology
Conveying, transport and storage
Waste and waste water
- Water treatment
- Waste water treatment
- Resource-efficiency and services
ingredients
- Acid starters
- Acidulants
- Antifoam agents
- Antioxidants & antimicrobials
- Aromas
- Bakery raw materials
- Binding agents
- Blends & compounds of fruit juice
- Butcher's raw materials
- Casein clarifier
- Clouding agents
- Cocoa butter
- Colourings
- Cultures, microorganism
- Curing agents
- Cutting aids
- Distillates
- Emulsifying agents
- Emulsifying salts
- Enzymes
- Extraction agents, solvents
- Extracts, vegetable
- Fat substitutes
- Fatty acids
- Fibres
- Filter aid
- Flavours & fragrances
- Flavours & colours
- Flour improvers
- Flow agents, anti-caking agents
- Food additives
- Fruit and vegetables concentrates
- Fruit and vegetables powders
- Fruit ingredients
- Fruit preparationsfor bakery & confectionery
- Malt extracts for malt beverages
- Meat extracts
- Mineral substances
- Powdered fat
- Precipitants
- Preservatives
- Propellant gases
- Protective gases
- Proteins
- Raising agents
- Releasing agents
- Sauces
- Semi-finished products
- Sorbents
- Specialty fats
- Spices, herbs
- Stabilizers
- Starter cultures & enzymes for dairy
- Sweeteners
- Vitamins
food + hospitality
Food and beverages
- Bread & bakery
- Dairy
- Drinks
- Fish & seafood
- Fresh & chilled food
- Frozen food
- General foods
- Health food
- Hot beverages
- Ice cream & deep-frozen confectionery
- Meat & meat products
- Organic food
- Snack food
- Sweets
Equipment and supplies for hotels and restaurants, bars and cafés, canteens and commercial kitchens
- Building furnishings and equipment
- Coffee machines
- Distribution systems and serving equipment
- Ice-cream machines
- Information and billing systems
- Refrigeration technology
- Kitchen technology
- Rinsing, cleaning and disposal technology
- Sweets
Promising outlook for business after
agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa 2022
1,384 trade visitors discussed their investments with 98 exhibitors from 22 countries
1,384 Ghanaian and West African professionals from the agrofood & plastprintpack industry discussed their business with 98 exhibitors from 22 countries.
The 7th edition of agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa 2022 had exhibitors participating from Belgium, Burkina Faso, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Poland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates and USA.
The event took place from 29 November to 01 December 2022 at the state-of-the-art Trade Center Arena at the Accra International Conference Centre.
The exhibition was again supplemented by a 3-day program full of presentations and conferences.
What the exhibitors said
Country pavilions in 2022 from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa and Sri Lanka
German Pavilion
Presenters of the German Pavilion
- German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, in cooperation with the
- Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA)
Exhibitors in the German Pavilion 2022 include:
BEWITAL agri
Destilla
GEA West Africa
LANXESS
Riela Africa
Schmitz Cargobull Overseas
Te So Ten Elsen
Vibrofloors
Vion
WEDA
Windmöller & Hölscher



Iranian Pavilion
The Iranian Pavilion is supported by the Trade Promotion Organisation of Iran and the Iran International Exhibition Center IIEC.
Italian Pavilion
The Italian Trade Agency ITA in cooperation with AMAPLAST, ACIMGA, UCIMA and ANIMA / ASSOFOODTEC is organising the first Collective Participation of 21 Italian companies at plastprintpack & agrofood West Africa 2022.
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The plastprintpack & agrofood West Africa Fair is the main international exhibition in Ghana, dedicated to the agro-industrial supply chain, where technologies for processing, packaging and packing of food, beverages, cosmetics, etc. are widely exhibited.
Despite a two-year period marred by the pandemic, Ghana's economic growth forecast for 2022 is 5.8%, consolidating it as one of the largest economies in West Africa.
The agricultural sector is of paramount importance in the country, both socially and economically. It absorbs around 1/3 of total employment and contributes 21% of GDP. In 2020, it was the most dynamic sector of the economy, with +7.4% growth. …
Italian exhibitors:
- Arol
- Cevolani Italia
- Irritec
- ITIB Machinery International
- Maina Industries
- Melegari Technology
- Miele
- Navatta Group Food Processing
- New Project
- Novacart
- Pigo
- Prismatech
- Promec
- Promer
- RGS Vacuum Systems
- Riello Ups
- Simex
- SZS Free
- TMCI Padovan
- Tropical Food Machinery


The Netherlands Pavilion
The Netherlands Pavilion is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and GNBCC - Ghana Netherlands Business & Culture Council and features the following exhibitors:
- GNBCC - Ghana Netherlands Business & Culture Council
- African Tiger Holding
- Cluster Farming Holding
- Holland Greentec
- Maridav Ghana
- Miqdadi
- Solidaridad West Africa


South Africa Pavilion
South Africa joins in with a Department of Agriculture Western Cape Pavilion.
The Western Cape Department of Agriculture is responsible for the promotion of agriculture in all its rich diversity in the Western Cape. About 45% of South Africa’s agricultural exports move through the Western Cape and the value-added in the sector amounts to just less than R21 billion (US$ 1.2 billion) per annum.
Exhibitors
- Department of Agriculture Western Cape
- 5 Pence
- Aslina
- Bayede Marketing
- Best Spirits of Africa
- Cape Dreams
- De Pizan Beverages
- Jacobs Jam Co.
- Lifestyle Rooibos Tea
- M'Hudi
- Resulta Exporters
- Rooiboslief Lifestyle
- Spicy Bulldog
- The Road to Exotic Taste
- Thokozani Wines
- Ubuntu Evoo
- Ukhamba Beer Worx
Sri Lanka Pavilion
Visitors are offered a cup of fresh Ceylon Tea as the Sri Lanka Tea Board presents the following ten producers of fine Ceylon Tea on a 72 sqm stand:
- Anew Ceylon Tea & Spices
- Basilur Tea Export
- Ceylon Tea Marketing
- Ceylon Tenny Tea
- Finlays Colombo Limited
- Heritage Teas
- Meezan & Company
- Uniworld Teas

GIZ provided a stage for the Ghanaian private sector

Ghana has been a reliable partner country of German development cooperation for more than 30 years. Sustainable economic development, training and employment are some of the core interventions of the Ghanaian-German cooperation. GIZ supports the provision of business and financial services, promotes skills development and digital transformation, fosters private investment and strengthens the framework conditions for trade and economy.
At agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa 2022, GIZ provided a stage to the following entities and their members:
- Equipment Designers and Fabricators Association of Ghana (EDFAG) – Your reliable partner for quality equipment design, fabrication & maintenance for the food processing industry in Ghana
- Plant Pests and Diseases Control Company Limited (PPEDCO) – Assists farmers to produce wholesome mango & cashew fruits through the provision of efficient canopy management, pest and diseases control and general agricultural extension services
- RST Company Limited – The Masters of Agric Machinery & Equipment
The Ghanaian and West African agrofood market
Agricultural technology: The West African market for agricultural technology becomes ever more important. According to the German Engineering Federation VDMA, West African imports of such machinery reach around €200 million annually.
Food & beverage technology: From €496 million in 2015 to €694 million in 2021, West Africa’s imports of food & beverage technology show an annual increase of 5.8% between 2015 and 2021. Ghana's food tec imports even increased by 17% annually, from €59 million in 2017 to €112 million in 2021. (VDMA)
Food & beverage ingredients: With already well over 420 million inhabitants (2022), which according to the World Bank will rise to 800 million by 2050, West Africa is a huge food market. Expenditure in the F&B sector is growing steadily, and F&B production is by far the largest segment of the West African processing industry. Accordingly, the demand for food and beverage ingredients is rising continuously.
Food trade with West Africa: According to the World Trade Organization WTO, West African food imports have reached around US$19 billion and exports US$21 billion in 2021. Thus, food trade with West Africa is a US$40 billion business.
Strong institutional support of
agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa 2023
The 9th edition of agrofood & plastprintpack West Africa 2023 enjoys the strong support of the following institutions.
Support from within Ghana
- Ghanaian Ministry of Business Development
- The Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- The Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation
- The Ministry of Trade and Industry
- AGI Association of Ghana Industries
- FABAG Food & Beverage Association of Ghana
- GIPC Ghana Investment Trade Promotion Centre
- NEIP National Entrepreneurship and Innovations Plan
International support
- AHK Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Ghana
- ANIMA / ASSOFOODTEC - Italian Association of Manufacturers of Machinery, Plants, Equipment for Food Production, Processing and Preservation
- DLG German Agricultural Society
- EECA - Egypt Expo and Convention Authority
- Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Türkiye to Ghana
- German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, in cooperation with the Association of the German Trade Fair Industry (AUMA)
- GIZ
- GNBCC Ghana Netherlands Business & Culture Council
- ITA Italian Trade Agency
- NABC Netherlands African Business Council
- South African Department of Agriculture Western Cape
- Sri Lanka Tea Board
- UCIMA - Union of Italian Manufacturers of Automatic Packaging Machinery
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