Could it be that African farmers are seeking new jobs?

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• Kojo T 11 years ago

  No comments as our brain dead commentators do not see the thruth. They will rather shout about Mahama instead of going for commercial farms I weep for Nkrumah who brought in sils and commercia farms and was bombed for it

  No comments as our brain dead commentators do not see the thruth. They will rather shout about Mahama instead of going for commercial farms I weep for Nkrumah who brought in sils and commercia farms and was bombed for it

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

  If some small scale farmers are leaving agric to engage in far better productive (remunerative-wise) activities, then I welcome that as good news indeed! It is rather a good sign that things will improve for those remaining i ...
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  If some small scale farmers are leaving agric to engage in far better productive (remunerative-wise) activities, then I welcome that as good news indeed! It is rather a good sign that things will improve for those remaining in agric.
  
  The bane of agric in Africa is that too much of the population is engaged in it. If most are producing same stuffs, who are supposed to consume them? Who shall they sell to? If the rains were good and there is a bumper harvest, it is often a disaster for them. Prices slump and produce is left to rot on the farms or road sides in the absence of adequate storage facilities (post harvest losses). In Ghana, the UP/PP/NPP elite advised the NLC military junta to close down or stop the building of the silos the CPP was building to tackle these endemic problems still with us today!
  
  I have written quite a lot challenging these orthodox ideas about agric in Africa. I thus challenge anyone to show to me a single subsistence farmer in Ghana! Subsistence farmer defined as farmers who produce crops for their own consumption, and possibly selling the surplus to acquire some non-agric goods. Imagine Anloga shallot, pepper and tomatoes farmers eating their shallots, pepper, tomatoes and selling the surplus! Bloody, shallow understanding of the rural economy! If someone is doing that, then he/she is not a farmer but has a main occupation and only use some small scale gardening to supplement his income and living cost, e.g, many rural teachers, artisans and fishermen. Call it job variation in the rural economy.
  
  We need a new outlook on agric, not these jaded views.
  
  Andy-K

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