The commitment of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is crucial for the sustenance of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) programme to positively transform Ghana's agriculture.

Mr Martin Esson-Benjamin, Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Development Authority, which is overseeing the transformation process, said this at a media briefing, at Ho, on Wednesday.
Mr Esson-Benjamin said the Authority had, therefore, made funds available to the MOFA to train some of its officials to assume responsibility for the project when the MCA's mandate ends in 2012.
He said it was the responsibility of the relevant Ghanaian institutions and officials to own and sustain donor funded projects when these projects are handed over.
Mr Esson-Benjamin was hopeful that the country's emerging oil industry would be able to provide the needed funds for the continuation of the programmes.
Journalists had expressed concern about the future of the current project which seemed to be a replication of the defunct Volta Region Agriculture Development (VORADEP) project.
In its statement, titled, "The MCA Ghana Compact," the MCA said its agriculture project: "is designed to enhance the profitability of staple foods and horticultural crops through improved delivery of business and technical services to support the expansion of commercial agriculture among "Farmer-Based Organizations."
The groups comprise eligible farmers, input suppliers or output processors who buy from such farmers.
It said the Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) would support farmer and enterprise training in commercial agriculture, irrigation development, land-tenure facilitation, improvement of post-harvest handling and value chain services, improvement of credit services for on-farm and value chain investments and rehabilitation of feeder roads.
The MCC Funds would also go into upgrading highways and improving trunk roads and the Volta Lake Ferry Services.
It would strengthen public sector procurement capacity, community services and rural financial services.
The goal of MCA Ghana Program: "is poverty reduction through economic growth by increasing the production and productivity of high-value cash and food staple crops in the Southern Horticultural Belt, Afram Basin and Northern Agricultural zones, the statement said.