Ghanaian Diaspora and Agricultural Development in Ghana

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• Say the Truth 12 years ago

  Prof. you have really articulated your expert points which sound quite good ...BUT IT IS ABOUT DEALING WITH GHANA THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE, RESPECT, HELP, SUPPORT,INSPIRE GHANAIANS IN THE DIASPORA TO COME TO GHANA TO INVEST AN ...
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  Prof. you have really articulated your expert points which sound quite good ...BUT IT IS ABOUT DEALING WITH GHANA THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE, RESPECT, HELP, SUPPORT,INSPIRE GHANAIANS IN THE DIASPORA TO COME TO GHANA TO INVEST AND SUCCEED!!!
  
  EVERYTHING RIGHT FROM THE STATE MACHINERY, POLITICAL PARTIES MACHINERY, EXTENDED MACHINERY ONLY SEEK TO SUCK AND EXPLOIT THE DIAPORA TO SKELECTING!!!
  
  WHEN IT IS TIME FOR ELECTIONS THE POLITICIANS FROM THE MAIN PARTIES BOTH NDC & NPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES GO AROUND USING & EXPLOITING THE DIASPORAS TO RAISE FUNDS FROM GHANAIANS IN THE DIASPORA AND GET CONTACTS WITH INVESTORS WILLING TO FINANCE & INVEST SECRETLY THE POTENTIAL WINNERS OF THE PRESIDENCY.
  
  WHAT HAS BEEN THE SHARE IN THE CAKE FOR THE DIAPORAS DOING THAT????????
  
  NOT EVEN VOTING RIGHT WHICH IS A LAW THAT NEEDS TO BE IMPLIMENTED. BOTH PARTIES ARE PLAYING AROUND DOING THAT OR IMPLEMNTING THAT...THIS IS VERY VITAL TO THE DIASPORA....FOR IF THEY MESS UP WITH ANY DIASPORA BE HE/SHE SYPATHIZER TO NDC OR NPP WILL GET THE WRATH OF BEEN VOTED OUT OF OFFICE FOR DIASPORA VOTES ARE VITAL, & OF STRATEGIC, 'KINGMAKING" IMPORTANCE THAT CANNOT BE BOUGHT ON TRIBAL LINES OR MISMANAGEMENT SO THEIR VOTES CAN CHANGE GHANA'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE INTO DOING BUSINESS IN THE REAL SENSE POLITICALLY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA TO MOVE OUT INTO REAL GROWTH BENEFICIAL TO GHANA AS A WHOLE!!!!
  
  SUMMING UP: NOT UNTIL THIS VITAL THING OF IMPORTANCE..."THE RIGHT FOR DIASPORAS TO VOTE GOVERNMENTS IN & OUT" WITH THIS RIGHT TO VOTE ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD THEN IF THE GOVERNMENTS BE IT NDC OR NPP GOVERNMENT MESS UP WITH THE DIASPORAS AND THE NATION IN GENERAL.....NOTHING MEANINFULLY WILL HELP YOUR PROPOSAL TO SUCCEED IN GHANA UNDER THE PRESENT MIND SET AND MENTALITY OF GHANAIANS!!!!!
  
  FOOD FOR THOUGHT!!!

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• kwesi atta sakyi 12 years ago

  I thank you most sincerely for your rejoinder and the insight you have shared on our political leaders who are exploiting and milking Ghanaian Diasporeans but refusing to enfranchise them with the vote for them to exercise th ...
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  I thank you most sincerely for your rejoinder and the insight you have shared on our political leaders who are exploiting and milking Ghanaian Diasporeans but refusing to enfranchise them with the vote for them to exercise their voice, exit and vote. Your suggestion has triggered the need to do another article, as it has thrown some light on the sentiments you have painstakingly articulated.

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• Jatoba 12 years ago

  Good article, but all these suggestions will fall on deaf ears. One of the basic problem facing agricultural development in Ghana is STORAGE FACILITIES. As at now people around Kintampo area have plenty of yams to sell at m ...
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  Good article, but all these suggestions will fall on deaf ears. One of the basic problem facing agricultural development in Ghana is STORAGE FACILITIES. As at now people around Kintampo area have plenty of yams to sell at minimise prices.Why?. They are oblige to sell at low cost to avoid the rotten of the yams.Agriculturral development in Ghana depends mostly on the government.All what concern the gov't is just a paper work,meetings of all kinds to embezzle the money of the State. Hmmmmm.

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• Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

  Cousin, Please give us an article and half that's short and loaded with facts. Not a long one that lacks facts and is only worth one half.
  
  These days I have to wait so long with bathed breadth to read your articles and it ...
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  Cousin, Please give us an article and half that's short and loaded with facts. Not a long one that lacks facts and is only worth one half.
  
  These days I have to wait so long with bathed breadth to read your articles and it ain't fun anymore.
  
  However I jump on your articles to devour every bit of it when I see it. I almost swallowed this article without the aid of water but had to spit it out when I reached the last paragraph.
  
  You were earning high grades and kudos from my weary and acerbic keyboard stokes until you sneaked in your bad habit in the last paragraph.
  
  Here I was, so elated that cousin has finally tossed all the crap about multiple synonyms, listology, geographical places, historically significant people and economic textbook authors. Then I read the last paragraph and jumped off my desk. Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake, Mungo Park and David Livingston were all doing the latest Listology shuffle, while Tetteh Quarshie drummeth.
  
  This is what ruined an otherwise good article:
  
  "What Tetteh Quarshie did in 1876 to bring cocoa seeds from Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea) to plant at Akropong Akwapin, we in the Diaspora can also do. Marco Polo journeyed on foot for thousands of kilometres to China from Italy in 1271, and brought the knowledge of silk and spices to Italy. Among Ghanaian Diasporeans are lurking many Tetteh Quarshies, Marco Polos, Mungo Parks, David Livingstones, Mary Slessors, Sir Walter Raleighs, Francis Drakes, Jim Hawkins and Captain Thomas Cookes."
  
  What has this last paragraph of yours got to do with Diasporans and Agric development in Ghana. haba. cousin. Enough of this bad habit.
  
  You touched on all the areas that need addressing but tilted the article towards government control, as usual.
  
  You fail to acknowledge that cutlass and hoe agric is passé and not economically viable.
  
  Large industrial scale farms are the only way to accrue profit and employ large number of people on good salary.
  
  Access road to the farmlands is also a big issue and you rightfully touched on that, which is the obligation of the government.
  
  Agricultural machinery import on duty free basis will help.
  
  Then the most important function in the chain of delivering products year round to the consumer: Product preservation and processing. This is where the money should be spent to sustain year round supply and surplus for export.
  
  Weather dependent agric is too tenuous a venture and this is where our numerous bodies of water could be engineered into diverted corridors of irrigation dams in a planned waterway zonal demarcation.
  
  Your loud dictations that diasporans should do this and that and farm chickens, dogs and hyenas etc shouldn't be part of this article. Just list a couple of products with large market demand as potential venture. Diasporans already know what to do if they want to farm.
  
  I wish you'd explored the issue of land acquisition extensively. It's a problem that puts off a lot of investors.
  
  Saalute from forehead to waist, with a thundering foot stomp amid wild jubilating cheers, whaaaaaaaaaaam.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  Whichever way Cousin looks at my article, I have no choice but to dance and pander to his overtures and entreaties. Cousin forgets that we all have tainted glasses with which to perceive issues, so we should be accommodating ...
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  Whichever way Cousin looks at my article, I have no choice but to dance and pander to his overtures and entreaties. Cousin forgets that we all have tainted glasses with which to perceive issues, so we should be accommodating and tolerant of each other's viewpoint.

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  Bro PK,
  I caught you on this one. It is "baited breath!" Of course the Americans sometimes go the GWB way.
  
  My own take is that the first order of business is to sort out the cumbersome land ownership mess in Ghana. I do n ...
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  Bro PK,
  I caught you on this one. It is "baited breath!" Of course the Americans sometimes go the GWB way.
  
  My own take is that the first order of business is to sort out the cumbersome land ownership mess in Ghana. I do not advise any Diasporan to lead any foreigner to Ghana with the aim of getting into farming. It could destroy long-term friendships.
  
  Any piece of land that is large enough for any kind of commercial farming anywhere in southern Ghana could be owned by up to ten families/individuals. Long after you have settled the documentation, and that can take years, someone pops up and says he was not consulted in the sale.
  
  We need to sort our land tenure system as a priority.
  Have a great day!

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• Nana Poku, Essex 12 years ago

  In addition to your suggestion, the government should have a policy, a free import duty for Agricultural Machinery to help food production and food security in Ghana.
  
  Secondly, the bottlenecks of land acquisition and tenu ...
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  In addition to your suggestion, the government should have a policy, a free import duty for Agricultural Machinery to help food production and food security in Ghana.
  
  Secondly, the bottlenecks of land acquisition and tenure system needs to be debated to find solution. Coming from an agrarian economy, Agriculture should be given the priority in investement, in terms irrigation schemes, buiding of silos, infrastructure, ie road and bridges.
  
  The gov't need to launch a special programme to see that these are being implemented, not just a policy. Over to you Mahama and Co.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  What have you said that was not mentioned in my article? All the same thank you so much for your rejoinder, because as you said, the topic should engage discourse in a dialogic manner. I replied earlier on to Kobena, PKM and ...
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  What have you said that was not mentioned in my article? All the same thank you so much for your rejoinder, because as you said, the topic should engage discourse in a dialogic manner. I replied earlier on to Kobena, PKM and Say the Truth, so why cast those aspersions on going to specsavers? Granted I am old but I am not that bad in sight.

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  It is bated breath, not baited breath.

  It is bated breath, not baited breath.

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  Yes, Kwesi,
  I also goofed!
  English!!!

  Yes, Kwesi,
  I also goofed!
  English!!!

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• Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

  The English Language is delicate with its weird, subtle and confabulated and convoluted nuances and idiosyncrasies. Borofo y3 dur! Borofo ma etsib3n!

  The English Language is delicate with its weird, subtle and confabulated and convoluted nuances and idiosyncrasies. Borofo y3 dur! Borofo ma etsib3n!

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• Nana Poku, Essex 12 years ago

  What I said was the topic needs to be debated (as in a debate, to impartially discuss it as a nation). I think you need to go to specsavers for your eye test!!!

  What I said was the topic needs to be debated (as in a debate, to impartially discuss it as a nation). I think you need to go to specsavers for your eye test!!!

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• Kojo yeye 12 years ago

  Thank you Kobena. As I read the article that is what came to my mind immediately. It is a good article with a lot of good suggestions on the various areas to invest in agriculture.
  
  If the writer or any other reader has an ...
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  Thank you Kobena. As I read the article that is what came to my mind immediately. It is a good article with a lot of good suggestions on the various areas to invest in agriculture.
  
  If the writer or any other reader has any suggestions on improving the land tenure system and can concretely point out how to practically deal with this chronic problem it is going to be diificult to make progress in this sector.

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• Albert kwasi Dzamesi 12 years ago

  Prof..i leave in new york usa.last year i ask my family back home in ghana to farm for me.You know,ihad ten bags of maize.So "if the body no go,the mind go fit go.

  Prof..i leave in new york usa.last year i ask my family back home in ghana to farm for me.You know,ihad ten bags of maize.So "if the body no go,the mind go fit go.

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• Sir John 12 years ago

  the politrctions rob us trillions of dollars and spent not even 1min in jail and poor jobless youth stool this few things and they have been jail for 80yrs . we live in a country where the youth got no job but have to pay for ...
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  the politrctions rob us trillions of dollars and spent not even 1min in jail and poor jobless youth stool this few things and they have been jail for 80yrs . we live in a country where the youth got no job but have to pay for high utilities and this politicians are there doing what they want with our money.A day will come when the youth of this country will stand up on their rite and fight to death, and am sure we will win the war after killing all the politician

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