The main industrial crops are palm oil, cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, and kenaf, the latter used in the production of fiber bags. None is of strategic economic importance, and all, apart from oil palms, have suffered as a result of the nation's economic difficulties. contempt claims that such crops could assist local industrialization efforts, the government has not focused the same attention on this area as on export crops. For example, sugar cane output has diminished with the closure of the nation's two sugar mills, which produced 237,000 tons per year in 1974-76, but only 110,000 tons in 1989.

Farm animal production is severely limited by the incidence of tsetse fly in Ghana's forested regions and by poor grazing vegetation elsewhere. It is of major importance only in the comparatively arid north and has not been earmarked for special treatment in Ghana's recovery program. In 1989 there were an around 1.2 million cattle, 2.2 million sheep, 2 million goats, 550,000 pigs, and 8 million chickens in Ghana.