Ghana opens $40m pasta factory to cut imports

Ghana is making moves to reduce its import dependency with the launch of a $40 million pasta manufacturing plant by Olam Agri near Tema.

The facility, completed ahead of schedule, will produce up to 40% of Ghana’s pasta needs—a market previously met entirely by imports that cost an estimated $140 million between 2021 and 2024.

With 300 direct jobs and nearly 1,000 indirect positions created, the economic ripple effects are already real. Trade Minister Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare called every ton produced locally “a dollar preserved in our foreign reserves.”

The plant joins a wave of new industrial investments including a $250 million glass facility and a $110 million cement plant, signaling Ghana’s serious intent to become West Africa’s manufacturing hub.