Former President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that the next National Democratic Congress government will replace the One District, one factory programme to staple processing zones.
That, he said would encourage farmers and investors to pump in more resources into the processing sector as they would not be restricted by political demarcations.
Former President Mahama who was interacting with Journalists in Accra said the current one district, one factory was not plausible as not all districts were endowed and resourceful enough to come out with workable and sustainable factories to create jobs.
He explained that creating the staple processing zones would ensure a constant supply of raw materials to the factories, as the suppliers would not be limited by political demarcations as in the case of one district, one factory policy.
The Former President said under the staple processing zones, the government would identify areas that had a comparative advantage in the production of certain staple foods and establish factories that would rely on a constant supply of raw materials and create wealth for farmers.
He also gave the assurance that his next administration would revamp the cocoa industry, which he said was taking a nosedive since 2017.
The revamping, he said would be hinged on regular and timely supply of inputs, free fertilizers, rehabilitation of cocoa-growing areas roads, revamp the Produce Buying Company and equip them adequately to take over the buying of cocoa and other indigenous produce, to eliminate the monopoly of foreigners in that sector.
“We shall provide correct inputs to achieve the right outputs. ‘If you pretend to be giving more inputs, outputs will expose you.”
He said before his administration left office, they managed to supply about 60 million cocoa seedlings to farmers as part of the revamping exercise, ’unfortunately, production started declining as soon as we left office, and when I come back I will make sure that we go back to those policies, including; the rehabilitation of cocoa area roads that have been terminated for some years now.”
On the collapse of banks in the past years, the former President said it was not possible for the current administration to pay all depositors in full within one year, although the government announced so.
“How can they pay all depositors in full, when that was not catered for in the budget delivered by Mr Ken Ofori Atta, Minister of Finance in the last fiscal budget? Government is being clever is saying they will pay all depositors, after all there were no timelines given.”
He said his administration would have classified the banks into Class A, Class B and Class C with different benchmarks rather than collapsing them.
Source: GNA
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Lets just have a national agenda and follow it with a nation building spirit regardless of which party is in power. Lets stop the culture of freezing or dismantling what any previous party did. Leta start focusing on more meaningful policies than just mere politics. We are indeed tired of these NPP vs. NDC ***barred word***! Its time to build more infrastructure, energy, clean water, increase our exports and decrease our imports and creating a bigger business class rather than a few politicians stealing all the money and hiding it in the white mans economy. Pls just stop and think of our grandchildren. Especially the ones who will remain in Ghana and are not fortunate enough to be sent to Europe or USA
YOU BUILT A SUGAR FACTORY WITHOUT RAW MATERIALS HMMMMMM
HMMMM so all what NDC/JM can think off is Change of NAME as he did previously with Jubile house to Flagstaff house, etc .....boi. JDM DOESN'T HAVE SINGLE ORIGINAL POLICY... ALWAYS WANT TO PARASITE WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE N END UP DESTROYING IT...ASEM OOOOO
John Airbus Mahama
Nothing new to offer. ALWAYS campaigning on other party's policies. where is one time premium for NHIS you promised?
Replace it with Airbus Assembling Plant. That will be easier and quicker since you have an adamude3 covenant with them already. Boboribobo na apae live no oooo
Oh JDM did you forgot yuor staple processing zone when you were president or the idea came after introduction of 1D1F policy. Eiii ex president bro. Mahamah is everything ok de3.
Perhaps we need to call the ex president"Mr Abrogation" No original ideas, only wait for someone to come up with a program and plan an Abrogation. Well the story is that Ghanaians will not allow you to destroy whatever has been built.
All they can do is to rename a policy
Oh, oh, oh! So NDC and Mahama has NEVER thought of ANY original ideas of their own. Always we will change this, we will abolish that, we will review this. It is over to 'Ghanafo' to decide who should rule Ghana for A LOOOOOONG TIME. NDC only knows CREATE, LOOT & SHARE!