On International Women's Day 2026, BRIDGE-in Agriculture celebrates the women who received a hand — and immediately extended one to others. Meet Juliana, Yvette, and Gloria: three Ghanaian women whose businesses are growing, and whose first instinct has been to bring others along with them.
There is a quiet economy running beneath the surface of Ghana’s agricultural sector. It moves in the early morning, when a coconut farmer in Awutu Breku harvests twice as many fruits as she did last year. A woman she supplies gave her a steady contract, and the confidence to scale. It pulses in a soap-making workshop in Accra. There, a woman with albinism — once turned away from job after job — now teaches others how to build a livelihood. It hums in a factory in Nsawam, where 70 workers, most of them young women, are processing dried fruit for international shelves...
Building Something That Didn’t Exist Yet
When Yvette and her co-founder Emmanuel started Pure and Just Company Limited in 2018, they were not filling a market gap so much as creating one. Ghana had no shortage of fresh fruit. What it lacked was the infrastructure to turn fruit into shelf-ready, export-quality dried products. And the ambition to believe Ghanaian entrepreneurs could build it.
They started the way many founders do: in the kitchen, pooling savings to buy a tabletop dehydrator, going to markets and farms themselves, doing every job. Eight people became 24. Twenty-four became, today, 108.
Access to financing was among the most persistent challenges. International trade does not wait for cash flow to catch up; buyers expect product before payment clears. Last year, Pure and Just reached out to Stanbic Bank and secure a low-interest loan, under the BRIDGE-in Agriculture program...
Thoughtful storytelling by Edudzi Nyomi for CrossBoundary Group ! Read the full story here: https://crossboundary.com/women-in-agriculture-ghana-iwd-2026/