President Nana Addo Dankwa AKufo-Addo has said Ghanaians pay too much for food hence his government’s resolve to make sure the Planting for Food and Jobs programme becomes a success.
“It is important we begin to bring down the cost of food in Ghana. We pay too much money for ordinary food in Ghana. You live here so you know the price of food here compared to Ghana.
This is because our agriculture is not working,” he told Ghanaians living in Togo on Wednesday 3 May where he is on a two-day official visit.
To bring the cost of food down, Mr Akufo-Addo explained that his government had introduced the Planting for Food and Jobs programme, which would not only ensure abundance of food supply but also create jobs.
He said: “Two weeks ago, I went to Brong Ahafo to launch what we call Planting for Food and Jobs. It’s a nationwide programme which involves 200,000 farmers. By the end of my four years we would have involved 2.5 million farmers. The farming population in Ghana is somewhere five million and systematically every year we will increase it.
“We are providing them with subsidised fertiliser, we are providing them with improved seedlings and we are also providing them with a group of people who have not been in the system for a long time: extension officers.
For the last five years, not a single person who has come from the colleges of agriculture has found employment in the public sector, so we have over 3000 young men trained to help our farmers sitting at home doing nothing. It does not help us.
So this year we are employing 1200 of them to help in the programme of Planting for Food and Jobs. Next year, we intend to get another 2000 and then we will have a system to be able to absorb those who come from the colleges so that they can provide our farmers that basic assistance in terms of what to do to improve their productivity. These are some of the key measures that we are taking.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Not only food, but many other things are overpriced in Ghana. Sadly, the majority of locals are not aware of this. Why is locally grown produce more expensive than in some of Western Europe? Given the very low cost of labour in Ghana, why are hotels, even very simple ones, so expensive? Given the low cost of labour, why are beaches not cleaned up and developed to attract tourism? What possible reason can there be for Ghana to be the most expensive country in Africa, and more expensive overall than some major European countries? One day there will have to be a wake-up call and the people rise.
Start with all the polytechnic and university graduates who have no jobs.
Everything in Ghana is expensive. I was in Ghana for 5 weeks visit. The money I spent within this period? I would not have spent that amount of money in the State for 5 weeks. I asked myself what is going on in Ghana? common food? it is sad we are exporting everything.
The king had a dream but did not know the meaning but Joseph explained the dream and shewed the king wat must be done. The dream came to pass, and the whole of egypt was saved during the seven years of famine. Keep up the good work Mr President, God is with u, ur Vice and all ur appointees.