66% of rice consumed in Ghana imported

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• Odza The Fireman 8 years ago

  Mr. Minister for Agriculture this surely should be a priority area to tackle, to conserve foreign exchange and improve balance of payment. Substitute this huge imports with local rice production. We have the capacity, we need ...
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  Mr. Minister for Agriculture this surely should be a priority area to tackle, to conserve foreign exchange and improve balance of payment. Substitute this huge imports with local rice production. We have the capacity, we need the Policy!!

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• £earn_$martphones_Repairing 8 years ago

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  Helloooo! January is almost gone. Are you yet to start something? Still confused about what investment options to choose for the year to maintain steady cash flow? Think about it -everyday, both the employed and the idle are hooked to one important device - their smartphones! That's an idea right?; with huge market potential! Turn it to money. Get "Mobile Phones and Tablets Repairs " from Amazon marketplaces, Barnes & Noble, eBay etc
  
  *Paul planted, Appollos watered BUT #God GAVE the increase! *

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• Alhaji 8 years ago

  Imagine the amount we can save shd we produce it ourselves

  Imagine the amount we can save shd we produce it ourselves

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• Alhaji 8 years ago

  Graduate nurses and biomedical scientists are still in the house since 2013 wasting human resource please do something about it so they can also contribute their quota to our nation development.

  Graduate nurses and biomedical scientists are still in the house since 2013 wasting human resource please do something about it so they can also contribute their quota to our nation development.

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• IDDISAH IBRAHIM SAAKA 8 years ago

  I doubt if we are even producing 30% of our rice consumption in Ghana. Our records of rice imports are distorted at the ports as has been clearly proven by Anas Aremeyawo Anas revelations. We have clear cases of under invoic ...
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  I doubt if we are even producing 30% of our rice consumption in Ghana. Our records of rice imports are distorted at the ports as has been clearly proven by Anas Aremeyawo Anas revelations. We have clear cases of under invoicing of imports which become the official documents with which government uses for it's statistics. So therefore, if an importer brings in 100000 tons of rice, he or she declares 50000 which is what ceps records.
  The second point is that, any observer would realise that there isn't any significant stock of locally produced rice at the wholesalers or distributors point, which goes to buttress the point that we don't produce up to the figures thrown out there. It is mere hushed up talk and we need to be honest with ourselves.

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• Kinker 8 years ago

  Education is the key to stimulating awareness for home grown ones

  Education is the key to stimulating awareness for home grown ones

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