The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry

What The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry does

The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry (MOTAI) is a government ministry of the Republic of Ghana, headquartered in Accra, with its official web presence at moti.gov.gh. According to available firmographic data, the ministry's mandate centers on four functional areas: trade policy, agribusiness development, industrial regulation, and export promotion. It operates as a state entity — classified in the source data as a 'government_state_entity' under Ghanaian jurisdiction — rather than as a privately incorporated commercial enterprise. At the time of data collection, the ministry's website displayed only a loading/verification page, which limited the extraction of additional detail on specific programs, regulatory instruments, or operational initiatives.

As a government ministry, MOTAI does not operate under a conventional commercial business model. It is funded through Ghana's national public budgeting process rather than private investment, equity, or debt instruments, and it carries no public ticker. The entity has no disclosed parent company, no subsidiaries, and no traditional ownership structure. Its primary stakeholders are Ghanaian citizens, domestic agribusinesses, exporters, industrial operators, and other government bodies engaged in trade and industrial policy coordination. The firmographic field indicating 1–10 employees is inconsistent with the scale of a national government ministry and likely reflects a data quality limitation in the source rather than actual staffing.

The available data is notably thin across standard investment-analytics dimensions: no management team information, no product or service catalog, no technology stack, no AI or data capabilities, no funding or transaction history, no partnerships, no office locations beyond the Accra headquarters, and no financial performance metrics are documented. No revenue figures, budget allocation, headcount trend, or strategic transaction history could be triangulated from the input sources.

Name

The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry

Legal name

The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry

Website

https://moti.gov.gh

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry (MOTAI) is a Ghanaian government ministry headquartered in Accra. It oversees trade policy, agribusiness development, industrial regulation, and export promotion, funded through Ghana's national budget and serving citizens, businesses, and exporters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Trade & Industry Services

NAICS

Administration of Economic Programs (9261), Administration of General Economic Programs (92611), Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities (92614), Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities (926140)

SIC

Foreign Governments (8888), International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIAAAL

Trade, Industry & Economic Development Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Central/Federal Government Administration

SECONDARYBPAIAAAO

Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Central/Federal Government Administration

Keywords

• Trade policy regulation
• Agribusiness development
• Industrial regulation
• Export promotion services
• Government trade ministry

Headquarters

HQ city

Accra

HQ country

Ghana

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness & Industry is a Ghanaian government ministry that formulates and implements trade policy, drives agribusiness development, regulates industrial activities, and promotes exports for the Republic of Ghana. It serves as the primary state authority for shaping the operating environment in which Ghanaian businesses, agribusiness operators, industrial firms, and exporters operate.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Trade Policy Formulation and implementation of national trade policy frameworks for Ghana, setting the rules and direction under which domestic and foreign trade activities are conducted.
• Agribusiness Development

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (Nigeria): Nigerian federal ministry with an almost identical combined mandate over industry, trade, and investment promotion. The closest functional peer given the shared trade + industry + investment portfolio structure.
• Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (South Africa): South Africa's national department overseeing trade policy, industrial development, and competition regulation — the most developed Anglophone African peer and a benchmark for trade-and-industry ministry scope.
• Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry (Kenya): Kenyan ministry responsible for trade, investment promotion, and industrial policy — directly comparable in mandate shape to MOTAI and serving as a benchmark for East African trade-and-industry governance.

Broad incumbents

• UK Department for Business and Trade: UK ministerial department combining business growth, trade promotion, and industrial strategy. A broader incumbent peer for benchmarking how a mature economy merges these mandates.
• United States Department of Commerce: Large, established trade-and-industry ministry in a developed economy. Useful as a benchmark for organizational structure and policy tooling, though operating context is fundamentally different from Ghana.

Others

• UNCTAD: UN body supporting trade, investment, and development policy in developing economies. Provides technical assistance and frameworks that directly shape MOTAI's policy capacity and direction.
• African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat: Continental body implementing the AfCFTA agreement, which directly shapes Ghana's trade and industrial policy environment. An enabling/framework peer rather than a competing ministry.
• World Trade Organization: Multilateral body governing international trade rules. MOTAI's trade policy work is bound by WTO frameworks, making it the principal international counterpart rather than a competing entity.
• ECOWAS Commission – Trade, Customs, and Free Movement: Regional bloc body setting trade policy and tariff frameworks across West Africa. Functions as a counterpart and sometimes a constraint on MOTAI's national trade-policy authority rather than a direct peer.

Regional players

• Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration (Ethiopia): Ethiopian ministry handling trade policy, regional integration, and export promotion. Comparable in mandate and regional context though Ethiopia is more inward-focused, making it a regional rather than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/MINISTRY_MOTAI
• Facebookfacebook.com/ghanamoti
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ministry-of-trade-and-industry-greater-accra-regional-office

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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