Ghana has secured a $270 million agreement with a United Kingdom (UK) agrifood investment company, Agrium Capital to invest in the country’s poultry revitalisation project.
Agrium Capital signed the agreement with the 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development Programme (24H+) in London on Thursday, October 22, 2026, after they earlier signed the Heads of Terms on August 22, this year.
Other partners including Petra Trust, Axis Pension Trust, and Ghana EXIM Bank, were there to witness the signing ceremony which ushers the investment plan to the next phase of project development.
Known as the addendum, the partnership will lend the technical and investment work required to turn the framework into a productive poultry industry.
The project implementation is expected to significantly boost domestic poultry production, strengthen food security, create 12,000 direct jobs and reduce Ghana’s annual $400 million import bill for chicken and poultry products.
The output of the first phase is projected at 20,000 tonnes of dressed and processed broiler products annually, capable of being increased to 50,000 tonnes.
The Daily Graphic reported that Presidential Adviser on the 24H+ Programme, Augustus Goosie Tanoh, said the agreement underscored the programme’s strategy of mobilising domestic and international private capital into productive sectors.
He explained that the addendum consolidated the partnership and signalled progress from investor engagement to commercially viable project preparation.
Mr Tanoh described the poultry initiative as a practical example of blending foreign private capital with Ghanaian institutional capital to grow the sector.
The partnership brings together Agrium Capital, a subsidiary of Asset Green Ltd, with Petra Trust, Axis Pension Trust, and Ghana EXIM Bank.
The integrated platform will span the entire value chain: feed production, breeding, hatchery operations, broiler production, processing, cold chain, logistics, and market access.
UK-Ghana Partnership
The UK has welcomed the investment as a boost to UK-Ghana trade and economic cooperation.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, which hosted the August signing in Accra, has been cited as a catalytic partner in bringing together international investors, domestic institutional capital and government around the programme.
