Doing Business in Tamale

Tamale Aboabo Market

Economy:

 Agriculture, hunting, and forestry are the main economic activities in Tamale and its surroundings. Together, they account for the employment of 71.2 per cent of the economically active population, aged 8 years and older. Less than a tenth (7.0%) of the economically active people in the region are unemployed. Most of food stuffs like local rice, maize, beans, millet, groundnut, yam, and vegetables and also animal production.
The private informalsector absorbed 83.4 per cent of the economically active population. An additional 11.5 per cent are in the private formal sector leaving the public sector with only 4.3 per cent. Majority, (40.5%) of the 251,221 the not economically active are homemaker and just under a quarter (24.4%) are students. Those who are not working because of old age constitute 14.8 per cent. A small proportion is not working because of disability (2.2%) or are pensioners who are on retirement (1.2%) while 16.9 per cent are classified as others. These rates relate to the 10-year period preceding the surveys.

 Needs: 

Industrial raw materials, equipment, petroleum.

Mobile phone: 

Coverage is good in and around Tamale and patchy to non-existent elsewhere. Roaming agreements exist with numerous companies.

Internet:

Internet facilities can be found throughout Tamale but connection is sometimes slow. Hotels have faster access. Internet popularity is rapidly growing and service is improving to keep up with demand.

Post: 

Airmail letters to Europe may take two weeks or more to arrive.

Media: 

Lively radio phone-in programmes are common and popular. Numerous private radio stations compete for limited advertising revenue in Tamale and elsewhere. The state-run Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) runs national TV and radio networks.