Ghana's yam and grain storage story is one of the country's most important — and most under-told — agricultural challenges. Here's the honest picture, and where the facilities actually are. **The national framework.** The backbone of Ghana's post-harvest storage push is the **National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO)**, set up in 2010 under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. NAFCO operates a network of warehouses across the regions — the largest clusters are in **Tema, Kumasi, Tamale, Wa, Bolgatanga, Techiman, Sunyani, Ho and Takoradi** — buying surplus maize, rice, soya and sometimes yam from farmers at guaranteed prices and releasing stock in lean seasons. Alongside NAFCO, the **Grains and Legumes Development Board (GLDB)** runs certified seed and grain depots, and the **Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX)** has licensed warehouses in **Tema, Kumasi, Tamale, Wa, Ejura and Techiman** that issue warehouse receipts farmers can use as collateral for loans. **Yam specifically.** Yam is the hard one — it bruises, it sprouts, it rots. The traditional answer is the **yam barn** (the Akan *bεn* / *bam*), the raised, thatched, ventilated structure you see across the yam belt: **Techiman, Kintampo, Atebubu, Ejura, Nkoranza and Wenchi** in the Bono East and Ashanti regions, and further north in **Yendi, Bimbilla, Saboba and the Krachi areas**. Modern interventions have added **improved yam barns and cold-chain / evaporative-cooling stores** piloted by MoFA, CSIR–Crops Research Institute at Fumesua, and development partners like the **Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA)** project, which pushed better curing and storage techniques. The **Techiman and Ejura markets** are the great yam and grain trading hubs of the middle belt — if a farmer in that corridor wants storage, that's where the aggregators and licensed warehouses cluster. **Grain.** Maize, rice, sorghum, millet and cowpea move through **NAFCO depots, GLDB silos, GCX-licensed warehouses, and the big market-based "silo" operations at Techiman, Ejura, Tamale, Wa and Bolgatanga**. The **1-District-1-Warehouse** programme (from 2017) built smaller warehouses in many districts specifically so farmers wouldn't have to truck grain to the regional capitals. **The honest caveat.** Which specific facility serves *your* district depends on where you are — Ashanti, Bono East, Northern, Savannah and the Upper regions all have different mixes of NAFCO, GLDB, GCX and private aggregator capacity, and some districts still have none within easy reach. If you tell me your region or district, I'll narrow it to the actual depots, their operators and how to contact them. You can also check the **MoFA regional office** for your region, or search "NAFCO" and "Ghana Commodity Exchange" listings on GhanaMann's directory. As the elders say, *"Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a, yenkyi"* — there's no shame in going back for what you left behind. If your harvest is sitting unsold or spoiling, the storage is often closer than you think.