Seidu Agongo outlines solutions to boost agriculture, cut Ghana's $3.5bn food import bill

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• Accranie 8 months ago

  HopeFully, Our OutGone Veep Who Was Head of The Economic Management Team, That Formulated and Implemented The Program/Policy/s of Planting For Food&Jobs and The Rest Will Do The Honourable Thing and Field The Official Report

  HopeFully, Our OutGone Veep Who Was Head of The Economic Management Team, That Formulated and Implemented The Program/Policy/s of Planting For Food&Jobs and The Rest Will Do The Honourable Thing and Field The Official Report

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• Tsotsoo 8 months ago

  We should make agriculture attractive to Ghanaians especially the youth. Irrigation should provide water all year round. Galamsey in what ever form must stop. Rice production in Ghana should be paramount. Corn, gari, vegetabl ...
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  We should make agriculture attractive to Ghanaians especially the youth. Irrigation should provide water all year round. Galamsey in what ever form must stop. Rice production in Ghana should be paramount. Corn, gari, vegetables and fruits should be all year round. Thank you.

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• Obuor 8 months ago

  Tweaaa.see who is talking?
  Thieves

  Tweaaa.see who is talking?
  Thieves

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• Richard 8 months ago

  I completely agree making agriculture attractive to the youth is key to Ghana’s food security. Investing in irrigation, tackling galamsey, and prioritizing year-round production of staples like rice, maize, and vegetables a ...
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  I completely agree making agriculture attractive to the youth is key to Ghana’s food security. Investing in irrigation, tackling galamsey, and prioritizing year-round production of staples like rice, maize, and vegetables are crucial steps.

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• Kofi Agyemang 8 months ago

  President John Mahama and his government can transform Ghana if they take agriculture very seriously. The minister of Agriculture must read this article. Our only way out of poverty, debt trap, weak currency and dependence on ...
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  President John Mahama and his government can transform Ghana if they take agriculture very seriously. The minister of Agriculture must read this article. Our only way out of poverty, debt trap, weak currency and dependence on IMF and the World Bank is agric. Let's make agriculture attractive to the youth.

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• Mr Ibu 8 months ago

  A lot of us like to eat foreign foodstuffs. Apart from maize we use for kenkey and banku, TZ 90 percent of Ghanaians eat foreign rice. They don't like the local rice. Tomatoes is imported from Burkina and Togo or Cote D'Ivoir ...
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  A lot of us like to eat foreign foodstuffs. Apart from maize we use for kenkey and banku, TZ 90 percent of Ghanaians eat foreign rice. They don't like the local rice. Tomatoes is imported from Burkina and Togo or Cote D'Ivoire Government must show the way first. School feeding program should purchase only locally produced foodstuffs

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• SA 8 months ago

  It is all down to poor management of our economy, and lack of seriousness by our leaders, they are keen on loans from the international market for development of the nation, which is their say so, while the true intention is ...
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  It is all down to poor management of our economy, and lack of seriousness by our leaders, they are keen on loans from the international market for development of the nation, which is their say so, while the true intention is to take loans and share them, they just don't want to sweat, work, generate cash internally to develop the country, useless and lazy leaders, only good at talking, doing politics with peoples life.

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• GOOD FATHER 8 months ago

  WHY NOT BAN ALL FOREIGN IMPORTED FOOD IN GHANA.GHANA CAN FEED ITSELF FROM IT LOCAL PRODUCE FOOD

  WHY NOT BAN ALL FOREIGN IMPORTED FOOD IN GHANA.GHANA CAN FEED ITSELF FROM IT LOCAL PRODUCE FOOD

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• FunnyGhana 8 months ago

  With a land tenure system that is chaotic and risky which serious farmer will risk large scale farming and investments only for chiefs and family land owners to come and misbehave with encroachment and forceful actions to cre ...
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  With a land tenure system that is chaotic and risky which serious farmer will risk large scale farming and investments only for chiefs and family land owners to come and misbehave with encroachment and forceful actions to create chaos to extort money after they see things growing on the land planted by the farmer.

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• Accranie 8 months ago

  @FunnyGh The Land Adm. Issue Is One of The Many Huddles, One Must OverCome Together With Zoning,Town&Country Planning(Operations), On The Journey of Gh. Moving To The Next Level, One Can't Give In To Despair Simply Because Th ...
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  @FunnyGh The Land Adm. Issue Is One of The Many Huddles, One Must OverCome Together With Zoning,Town&Country Planning(Operations), On The Journey of Gh. Moving To The Next Level, One Can't Give In To Despair Simply Because There is No Going Back(Coach)

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• Judo 8 months ago

  Another criminal walking for free

  Another criminal walking for free

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