Togo – Agriculture, the engine of growth

While Togo's agroecological conditions allow for the cultivation of most food crops, the agricultural sector has enormous untapped potential.

Togo is aiming for strong and inclusive growth (7.6% by 2025) which will result from the structural transformation of the economy. This growth will be deliberately oriented towards sustainable and inclusive development, based in particular on a dynamic of agricultural modernization, an industrial vision adapted to national realities associated with a strategy of economic diversification and the creation of decent jobs, thus contributing to significantly reducing the poverty rate and inequalities, and expanding access to basic social services. 

In the coming years, the government will focus on developing an agricultural processing hub using the "value chain" approach and targeting productivity to achieve food security, balance of agricultural trade and creation of agricultural jobs. 

To achieve this, with the support of the private sector and development partners, it will devote more resources to the agricultural sector with innovative and adapted financing mechanisms. These resources will be used primarily to modernize agriculture, in particular to improve yields through the development of appropriate mechanization, water management and the strengthening of cooperatives linked to the processing sector and, above all, to upgrade the research center (notably the Togolese Institute of Agronomic Research) and agricultural training centers. They will also contribute to establishing agropoles around high value-added sectors and to stimulating the creation of major processing plants by targeted high value-added sector.