Ghana on Wednesday sought Punjab's expertise to boost its rice production and improve its food grain quality. 

Seeking Punjab’s help, Ghana’s Energy and Petroleum Deputy Minister Benjamin Dagadu called on the State Food and Supplies Minister Adesh Partap Singh Kairon also seeking Punjab's expertise related to better infrastructure and latest techniques in the field of food technology, besides setting up of online post-procurement operations. 

Kairon assured the visiting delegation of all possible help in order to enable Ghana to produce quality food grains especially rice, and promised to share expertise in better milling and preservation operations. 

Informing that Ghana produces quality cocoa crop in abundance, Dagadu requested Punjab to share its expertise in post procurement operations of cocoa. 

The delegation also held another meeting with the top officials of various departments of the State to explore  opportunities in various fields.

The Minister sought strong mutual relations of business, trade and investment in the area of oil and gas, energy, power, agro-food processing, industry, oil refinery and co-operative farming and other related business opportunities between the state of Punjab and Republic of Ghana.

He said that the Ghana is a large importer of all types of finished products and consumer goods, but import from India to Ghana was almost negligible as compared to other countries.

“Main goals of Ghana delegation visiting India, especially Punjab, is to explore possibility of importing products, which are better quality substitute to Chinese products,” he said while proposing that Punjab Government should set up an engineering college in Ghana.