Ghana's Food Security effort has failed

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• Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must resign! 10 years ago

  IF YOU CANT GROW YOUR OWN FOOD. THEN YOU SHOULDNT BE ABLE TO WIPE UR ASS. INFACT, U DESERVE TO DIE BECOS U ARE USELESS EVEN IN THE FACE OF ABUNDANCE

  IF YOU CANT GROW YOUR OWN FOOD. THEN YOU SHOULDNT BE ABLE TO WIPE UR ASS. INFACT, U DESERVE TO DIE BECOS U ARE USELESS EVEN IN THE FACE OF ABUNDANCE

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• insight to the bone 10 years ago

  Development pepeni omanhene says is unequaled , and i ask what is the meaning? Is it the total uselessness , or insignificance , level of copying , corruption kick backs or the benefits his kleptomaniac brothers and cronies ...
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  Development pepeni omanhene says is unequaled , and i ask what is the meaning? Is it the total uselessness , or insignificance , level of copying , corruption kick backs or the benefits his kleptomaniac brothers and cronies have acquired , the level of prejudice of against anything that can benefit Akan areas or people . Pepeni has borrowed and created more debt than all the previous presidents before him combined including Nkrumah yet we dont see any results such as the attempts of raising any basic or primary industry to add some value to our natural resources before export that creates jobs for millions as Nkrumah and all presidents except for pepeni and JJ tried to. What is unequaled is the billions that have been siphoned out of the country mainly to islamic destinations like Iran , Dubai and Turkey. He boasts about the nonexistant 200 schools yet forgets over a century ago Akans mainly Fantes built schools that today would each cost no less than 20 million each. He offers markets and toilets as if the local community could not do so themselves if the taxes and various levies collected in those areas remained there. But no pepeni/ayigbe must chop bribe together with their Gas Adas and other satellite allies against the Akans. A govt whose members are selected not based on competence but their level of hate or prejudice against the Akan majority or the family blood ties to pepeni mahama can never serve anybody except their selfish selves and will always fail. The success or failure of any business , govt or social enterprise is determined by the personnel or cadre who execute the defined goals. In our case we need a govt selected based on merit and experience to get us out of this vicious circle of poverty and bad luck , so i would expect to see at least 3 investment bankers , 4 engineers , 2 macro economists and one doctor of project management and that govt with people of integrity will surely have results in less than a year. Competent Ghanaian all decline to associate themselves with NDC and their corruption driven govt.Pepeni went to mislead the chiefs to use festivals to promote market and project development but omitted to tell them no project has made it through the finance ministry without paying an arm and a leg in bribes , talk less of the cabinet or parliamentary committees. Mafias dont need economists or bankers but rather opt for book keepers or accountants like we see in our minister of finance being shadowed spied and watched by pepeni's cousin chief director Alajih Major Tara. Look at former minister of state for development now minister of science technology with his dentist of army qualification Alajih Dr Mustafa Ahmed and tell me he is capable of contributing something good except positioning himself to collect bribes. None of this will ever end up in Ghanian media or newspapers as NDC ( mainly Ga /Ada) activists now holding national security id s go around intimidating the journalists ,editors and owners of these establishments. We know the motive for these useless utterances by pepeni as his strategy ids to hoodwink the people into believing so much has been done for development , with roads , schools etc but notice there is no railway , no health services with modern ambulances including helicopters , fire services lack fighting water tank planes or helicopters talk less of specialised fire fighting equipment as not all will pay bribes , no initiation of any strategically important industry . Just get ready for the whirlwind of propaganda and lies saying the empty projects with no direction is what we couldnt do ourselves so they did. BULLSHIT GALORE

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• George 10 years ago

  Do you know what food security means? Kindly, compare notes with UNICEF to get a better understanding of what you want us to believe. Our food security is ok for now

  Do you know what food security means? Kindly, compare notes with UNICEF to get a better understanding of what you want us to believe. Our food security is ok for now

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• United Ghana 10 years ago

  What do you mean "for now"? Food security is long term & perpetually on-going. We are not producing enough & our ability to import food is increasingly declining due to Mahama's failure in economic & fiscal management.

  What do you mean "for now"? Food security is long term & perpetually on-going. We are not producing enough & our ability to import food is increasingly declining due to Mahama's failure in economic & fiscal management.

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• Boris Bukari 10 years ago

  When farmers have guarantee markets, thet will do al thst is necessary to produce to meet the market. In that sense they would do all that is available to get post harvest systems to prolong their produce. What do we see in G ...
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  When farmers have guarantee markets, thet will do al thst is necessary to produce to meet the market. In that sense they would do all that is available to get post harvest systems to prolong their produce. What do we see in Ghana the reverse.
  Agriculture Extension agents are not motivated to work. No mobility to visit the fields no monies to do method and results demonstrations. In this situation how do you expect us to be food secured When the grounds are not conducive for that. Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast don't give lip- service to policies relating to agriculture, they actualized or implements them to the letter. It is a shame on the MoFA in the mist food insecurity have being doing farmers day annually which never reflect the true aspirations of the Ghanaian farmer. If Africa contributes just only 2% of the world's food production how much does Ghana contribute your guess would be as good as mine.

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• j.k. Atta 10 years ago

  Lazy Ghanaians Big people sitting in Accra should have farms in the rural areas which they visit every weekend instead of sitting in Accra doing the wrong things

  Lazy Ghanaians Big people sitting in Accra should have farms in the rural areas which they visit every weekend instead of sitting in Accra doing the wrong things

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• PROFESSOR ==THOMAS KUBI 10 years ago

  NPP & NDC MUST ESTABLISH ========
  GHANA FOOD BANK
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  PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI
  GHANA KNOWLEDGE BANK
  GHANA commodity XCHANGE
  GHANA MARKETING COUNCIL
  INNOVATIOS IN EDUCATION

  NPP & NDC MUST ESTABLISH ========
  GHANA FOOD BANK
  ==========================
  PROFESSOR THOMAS KUBI
  GHANA KNOWLEDGE BANK
  GHANA commodity XCHANGE
  GHANA MARKETING COUNCIL
  INNOVATIOS IN EDUCATION

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• KkBy 10 years ago

  The research institutes should be merged with appropriate university departments. This will help provide avenues and facilities to train students. In the USA, Ag extension is directly under the university system in every sta ...
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  The research institutes should be merged with appropriate university departments. This will help provide avenues and facilities to train students. In the USA, Ag extension is directly under the university system in every state. So research findings get to farmers from the University.

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