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Mahama: Eating what we grow will save Ghana $1.5b

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  • Ras Bo @ London 9 years ago

    God is with you...Trust you shall succeed

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    In 1984 Thomas Sankara's clarion call to Burkinabe was: Let's grow what we eat and eat what we grow. Banners were flying all over Ouagadougou and in every town and village. It was a tremendous success and to this day BF still ...
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  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    Please,don't tell us what you don't know,this eat what you grow and grow what you eat was introduced in Ghana during the PNDC time in the early part of the revolution before Sankara made his coup and was a slogan those days ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 9 years ago

    Though nationalistic let' admit that most of our food is unwholesome, especially in the urban centres. Our farmers don't follow the prescribed guidelines so we are eating chemicals directly. And urban vegetables are grown wit ...
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  • Amano 9 years ago

    DO YOU EAT LOCAL FOOD JOHN MAHAMA? YOU TOLD US TO WEAR LOCAL SHOE WHILE YOU WEAR ITALIAN, OFUI

  • KWEKU MFANTSE 9 years ago

    Mahama stole the idea from Kutu Acheampong.

  • KWAA 9 years ago

    You are rather saying what you don't know.Gen,Achampong with all his faults introduced Operation Feed Yourself which was very successful.So it wasn't the PNDC as you want us to believe.

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    Operation Feed Yourself like any other government initiative was not successful,it started well like the Community Farms introduced by the PNDC but collapsed and don't forget that there was Farmers Brigade before all of them ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    STOP DISTURBING US, HYPOCRITE

  • Aikins 9 years ago

    How much did you spent in the last 3 months before 2012 election just because you wanted to become the president of Ghana at all cost.Now who thought you how to save ?

  • Maame Grace. 9 years ago

    This is a big lie it was started way before AFRC/PNDC came into being. It was started by Acheampong remember Operation Feed Yourself or maybe you were still a baby being fed breast milk.

  • KOO 9 years ago

    This is a desperate call.If the Europeans adopt this policy, no one will boy our cocoa.Striving to be competitive in all areas is the answer.

  • Mary 9 years ago

    This was actually introduced by I K Acheampong. yes, Operation feed yourself. Stop re writing history. This man used local resources to develop the country. His achievements have been buried by propaganda.

  • PIERRO 9 years ago

    Do you know the background of the late Acheampong you just praised? Ignorance is like a chronic of disease N D C.

  • Komla Agbeshie ( Ho ) 9 years ago

    Tweak,you and those NDC gurus are sucking our national cake.How many time do you eat local food? You and your family drink tea every morning and eat salad in the afternoon.

  • ebola 9 years ago

    yes mr stupid president .how much would have been saved if parliamentary furniture had been bought in Ghana.now u tell us to enjoy made in Ghana food while you chop imported food.god will soon punish you all..idiot

  • Dessy 9 years ago

    If you can't grow and feed yourself, how will you able to design fine furniture?

  • Kojo1 9 years ago

    Ghana grows vegetables which is used for salad and tea leaves for tea.

  • Son Of Man 9 years ago

    STAY PUT AND YOU WILL SAVE GHANA MORE.

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    Where are those who published that the President could not attend the ceremony because of his jet?

  • Onipanua 9 years ago

    This s not good for the nation.More emphasis must be laid on industrialisation and the development of a robust service sector.

  • Ghanaman 9 years ago

    Pepeni Mahama should tell us what he grows, and what he eats. Talk is cheap

  • HAN 9 years ago

    GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS ALSO CAUSE CANCER. GOVERNMENT SHOULD THEREFORE ENSURE THAT THE BILL ON INTRODUCTION OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS IN GHANA IS NOT PASSED INTO LAW FOR HEALTH REASON AND ALSO FOR THE FACTS THAT IMP ...
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  • PAUL RAY 9 years ago

    Irrigate with what? Has the president got any plans of building a desalination plant on the coast to supply water or introducing "Cloud Seeding" to help farmers in Sefwi Wiawso District? The importance of Sefwi District to Gh ...
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  • Campo are Blaise 9 years ago

    Did the president really say canned foods cause cancer? If is is true, they should be banned but of course it is not true. Instead he is deceiving people. The GMO foods he wants to bring into Ghana will rather cause cancer. T ...
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  • Abdul Dat .. 9 years ago

    Listen to that Cheap talk from Mahama, Do u grow what u eat yourself ???? U are so much into imported stuff but have the nerve to chat shit. Move ur dirty ass and ur cheap talk from there u good for nothing Prez. Farmers are ...
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  • KWAA 9 years ago

    Why is Mahama not seeking internal solutions to the Economic mess they have brought Ghana in,but seeking help from the IMF?

  • jOEy lOndOn 9 years ago

    From your Kokain and heruon hard drugs. To. Balance the Books .....bulll crap.

  • Say the TRUTH 9 years ago

    Apart from the economic benefits of eating what the country grows, President Mahama said there are a lot of health benefits to be derived from eating the many fresh and nutritious produce churned out by Ghana’s farmers ever ...
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  • YOOMOBEGA 9 years ago

    It is a pity that you don't know that regular eating of canned foods facilitates health problems.

  • KWAME 9 years ago

    What is the President asking Ghanaians to eat? Is the country able to produce more for Ghanaians to eat in the first place? Is the President honest and will take the lead in prectising what he is preaching to Ghanaians? The d ...
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  • ROYAL SIKAMAN 9 years ago

    OPERATION FEED YOURSELF was first introduced by General I.K. Acheampong with Colonel Banasko as Minister of Agriculture which became very successful. It was the same shit AFRC/PNDC who killed Acheampong, accusing of corrupt. ...
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  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    Operation Feed Yourself was not successful unless you don't know what is called a success,it collapsed before Acheampong was overthrown.

    Operation Feed Yourself,the government set up farm brigades which employed few people ...
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  • Mary 9 years ago

    Money was not borrowed to develop agric during Acheampong'sera. Soldiers and police had their farms to sustain them, they sold surpluses to the market. Individuals cultivated their own food. Even excess was sold to the market ...
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  • Araba Blay 9 years ago

    so that you can use the savings for elections?

  • Niibi-USA 9 years ago

    Yeah, we have heard this countless times since "Operation Feed Yourself", "Walaato Walaasa".
    What concrete plans do you have to make this a reality when we don't have sustainable agro based backed by a strong manufacturi ...
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  • okofo 9 years ago

    Mahama, stop repeating the issues and problems everybody knows: Just put measures in place to deal or solve them. Enough of the lectures Mahama aba!!!

  • Aikins 9 years ago

    I wonder he is still roaming about as president. Empty headed mahama knows he is not a presidential material but instead of him to step down as others do this idiot will still be wasting our time.

  • Oteng 9 years ago

    I was thinking to come home and vote for Npp but I can see the way Sam of you talk is like you have weapon in your mouth you speak to kill you don't think b4 you talk and wrong for the Nation Ghana need what the president is ...
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  • AKWAPIMBA,LAS PALMAS DE G.C.,SPAIN 9 years ago

    -CANN FOOD NEVER CAUSE CANCER,SO MANY YEARS IN LIVING IN EUROPE,MY DOCTOR NEVER TOLD ME OF CANCER.WE DONT STORE OUR FOOD WHEN OUT OF THAT SEASON.THAT MAKE US TO IMPORT.DRY SEASON,HAD TO PLANT CASSAVA,SO HOW DO WE GET CASSAVA ...
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  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    Give your undivided attention to the feeder roads if you are really serious about maximizing the benefits derived from agriculture.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Give praise when praise is due. The President is correct for advising us to eat what we grow. I wish he had added that canned foods are bad for you because most of them contain sodium and sugar.

    He should have encouraged u ...
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  • apuuu 9 years ago

    Some people can afford better food clothes car's if they have the money but the rest of the population can't he is telling us to eat what we grow well what he forgot is some of the food we grow are not good to eat cows chi ...
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  • apuuu 9 years ago

    Some people can afford better food clothes car's if they have the money but the rest of the population can't he is telling us to eat what we grow well what he forgot is some of the food we grow are not good to eat cows chi ...
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  • freddy 9 years ago

    ndc has squandered the money. The 1.5 billion will sit nicely in the bank account. Easy money whilst everyone else returns to KALABU... What is it about this political party and their entire history that makes things sooo dam ...
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  • Chief amankwa 9 years ago

    This self promoting president talk about farming but his family is not in the farming business caught in some rural area without light and water ..who want to go there ..
    please prez do me favour ...reduce corruption , hange ...
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  • Kwaku Ansong 9 years ago

    That means no GM food and seeds

  • Ugly Akufo Addo 9 years ago

    That's why Akufo Addo is too stupid

  • Drobo 9 years ago

    NONSENSE IN DETAILS. YOU BUY FURNITURE FOR PARLIAMENT FROM CHINA YET YOU EXPECT GHANAIANS TO GROW FOOD??? WHY NOT IMPORT FOOD FROM CHINA??? PURE NONSENSE.

  • paps 9 years ago

    for you and your cronies to chop

  • Alhassan Osman Naporo 9 years ago

    It is not about the amount it will save, but how the saved will spent .

  • Jetmoney 9 years ago

    Does it even make sense to save this money in ur reign cuz we the citizens of Ghana won't benefit from it anyways

  • OBINNA 9 years ago

    PREACH THAT TO YOUR PARLIAMENTARIANS

  • Mary 9 years ago

    Is Acheampong worse than Rawlings? Acheampong educated his children in Ghana, where did Rawlings educate his kids? Both were soldiers, however, one of them murdered Akans, vilified business people, seized and gave their busin ...
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  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Those who murdered Acheampong need to bow down their heads in shame. After murdering him, have they been able to to better? We are afraid to go back to the "Operation Feed Yourself" mantra because it makes certain people unco ...
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