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Ghana imports vegetables too!

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  • Kweku Boateng Jnr. 9 years ago

    And there is huge unemployment across the country. Minister for Agriculture take a leaf from Operation Feed Yourself.

  • Kojo T 9 years ago

    Wontumi , organize a march to produce these . Now will this not cause the Cedi to depreciate? NPP kwaseafo , what do you have to say about Fifi ?

  • GHFUO: nyantakyi,1/9aa must go.ASAP! 9 years ago

    Irresponsible govt!

  • Memma White 9 years ago

    Government has nothing to do with this. Ghanaians are just a bunch of lazy, sycophantic, never-do-wells, who just want to cheat and steal their way to riches.

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Lol thats good import everything even tooth pick and tooth brush lol

  • Memma White 9 years ago

    Ghana was sold to foreigners long ago. Didn't you notice? Your leaders are just going through the motions, and taking turns to feed at the trough. All their money and children have already been stashed abroad. They all plan t ...
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  • Mike 9 years ago

    We have Minostry of Agric with huge budget, four wheel drives, bonuses etc for doing very little. We must be practical as a nation. There must be leadership and direction. Our leaders are so corrupt with both hands and head b ...
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  • wali 9 years ago

    WE IMPORT BECAUSE GHANA PEOPLE ARE LAZY ,DONT WANT TO PRODUCE ANYTHING AND GOT NO VISION THAT IS WHY WE IMPORT SO MUCH

  • GHANAian 9 years ago

    GHANAFO ENYIMGUASE - SHAMEFUL GHANAIANS. IT HURTS ME TO READ THIS ARTICLE, THAT GHANA NOW IMPORT VEGETABLES? EBEI !! WHAT A SHAME. DO WE HAVE ANY STRATEGIST IN GHANA AT ALL? FULL OF LAZINESS!! EVERYBODY WANT TO GO TO EUROPE. ...
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  • kwekuUSA 9 years ago

    Ghana's citizens are lazy. They want to live like a successful nation but lack paying their dues. Try to help in Ghana and you will robbed by family members, customs officials, police officials, chiefs etc.. Lands I bought in ...
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  • wali 9 years ago

    TOO MUCH FRAUD TOO MUCH DISHONESTY
    A COUNTRY OF LAZY FALKS THAT REFUES TO WORK AND LOOKING FOR HANDOUTS ONLY

  • NANA BAAH 9 years ago

    THIS IS MADNESS INDEED!!!
    ARE GHANAIANS SO LAZY OR HANDICAPPED??

  • Akwasi Shadow 9 years ago

    in fact both of it.

  • man 9 years ago

    How can we feed ourselves if we use the land for galamsey. We don't know the importance of research. We have withdrawn research allowances. We shall be fed by others until we start thinking and researching our way forward. We ...
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  • Memma White 9 years ago

    Now you know what happens when blind leaders attempt to lead a blind citizenry.

  • PEPPER 9 years ago

    NOW THAT YOU HAVE NOTICED THIS; PLS. MINISTRE TACLE THI ISUE SERIOUSLY NOW !!!

  • CITIZEN 9 years ago

    our farmers are doing the best they can to produce just enough to feed us. where are the tractors etc. The money that is ys3ed to buy agricultural implements are being used to buy four by four, No wonder we are importing. Ple ...
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  • talented 9 years ago

    citizen can please contact me. my email address is jdamuahwilson@yahoo.com

  • JONA 9 years ago

    IT SHAME LEADERS OF THIS NATION DOESN'T HAVE SIMPLE OR COMMON SENSE. NO WONDER THE CEDI KEEP FALLING AND WILL CONTINUE TO FALL IF EVEN SHIT IS IMPORTED

  • JONA 9 years ago

    NO PLAN NO ACTION, ENTER GHANA PARLIAMENT AND YOU WILL BE SAD TO SEE EMPTY CHAIRS YET THEY WANT TO BE VOTED BACK EVERY 4YRS NO. THEY HAVE TO PROOF AND WORK FOR IT

  • Yiddana 9 years ago

    Why are you surprise. Our leaders have no vision and are all without exception, self seekers. It is the beginning of worse to come.Talk is cheap, but our politicians are all talkers no action not vision. The developed world d ...
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  • Memma White 9 years ago

    If talk is cheap, what are you personally doing about it?

  • Kojo 9 years ago

    We are complaining about Gov. while we can farm to feed the world.
    Lazy Ghanaians.

  • Memma White 9 years ago

    Bottom line, lazy Ghanaians...all of them, including yours truly!

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  • carl 9 years ago

    Untill Ghana adopts the mechanised system of farming and reserve some lands for agriculture alone, and stop building houses everywhere, we will even start importing water one day.
    Places that used to produce crops when I was ...
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  • Yaw Adu-Asare 9 years ago

    It is totally disgraceful that Ghana imports vegetables.

  • STEVE 9 years ago

    We have abandorned all our state farms and now importing even vegetables. This is a shame. Ghana was importing to almost all our neighbouring countries before the coup of February 1966 and some years thereafter. So the questi ...
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  • Osei 9 years ago

    YOU HAVE SIMPLY MESSED UP WHAT U INHERITED FROM KUFFUOR

  • Wofa Koo 9 years ago

    Mahama`s best inverters the Chinese illegal mining (galamsey) has taken over the agriculture/lands.

  • yentie obiaa 9 years ago

    It is quite strage that from 2008 to 2009 the total figure increased by more than 490%. Considering the fact that the major other change in the Ghana at that time was a change of Government, would be wrong to attribute our mi ...
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  • Domino 9 years ago

    "Over the last decade, there has been a growing U.S. trade deficit in fresh and processed fruits and
    vegetables. Although U.S. fruit and vegetable exports totaled more than $7 billion in 2011, U.S.
    imports of fruits and veg ...
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  • Kweku 9 years ago

    Look at India, a country of over 1.3 Billion population. Poor it is but it never imports anything except may be oil, elecronics etc. BUT important point is it exports large quantities of foodgrains, vegetable, fruits etc. af ...
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