Why agriculture and agribusiness can change Africa's story

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• Mahmoud 10 years ago

  The real problem is the P/NDC party and its government that have been in power now for seven years and had previously squandered 20years of our lives.
  
  With unprecedented revenues, and being in power more than any other pa ...
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  The real problem is the P/NDC party and its government that have been in power now for seven years and had previously squandered 20years of our lives.
  
  With unprecedented revenues, and being in power more than any other party in the country, the P/NDC government should have been in a positioned to diagnose and implement a Better Ghana Agenda in Power generation, water supply and agriculture from day one in 2009, and not go on pursuing their current 'Worse Ghana Agenda' with massive corruption and reckless borrowing which have landed us in the present deplorable situation. Ghanaians can't wait any longer; they are fed up!

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• Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

  Just like politicians of yesteryear and of today Ghana's voting public are ever ready to hop on an issue of the moment and engage the government through senseless street level demonstration rather than on merit.
  
  Who in soc ...
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  Just like politicians of yesteryear and of today Ghana's voting public are ever ready to hop on an issue of the moment and engage the government through senseless street level demonstration rather than on merit.
  
  Who in society should be destined to be a farmer and without ambition to be rich and prosperous? Most people in farming communities across Ghana are lured into urban areas in search of the elusive government work with hope of coming home to visit with pocket full of money and a possible car just as we see our politicians and corrupt officials do. Who then is to stay back in those farming communities to feed those of us in big cities and urban areas where farmers are not celebrated but held in low esteem?
  
  Politicians get to make their money by foul means and through connections become farmers; they use farming as a front to fool us all into believing they are earning the loot they acquired through graft and illegal activities. Was Kufour a big time subtenant farmer prior to becoming our president? What incentives did his administration give farmers that were enshrined in legislative instrument(s) of parliament?. Who are we fooling in Ghana?
  
  If being self sufficient and being able to feed ourselves in Ghana is a priority we should show it by the prices we pay our farmers for farm products; we must make it worth a farmers while. It is the only way to encourage school age kids to look to farming as viable occupation.

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