Accra, Sept. 12, GNA- Nana Obodie Boateng Bonsu II, President, Concerned Farmers Association of Ghana, says there is enough food in the country, dismissing assertions that there is food shortage.
“We did a tour on identification of community challenges to check the food prices and realised that there is enough food, and bumper harvest all over due to the Government Planting for Food and Jobs initiative,” he said.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra, Nana Bonsu II said the interventions of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture had resulted in enough food and expressed concerns about the complaints that there was shortage of food.
He said Ghanaians complain about shortage of food because of the hike in food prices in the urban setting due to middlemen who buy the food stuffs from the farmers and sell it at a higher price to the public.
Nana Bonsu II urged the Government to fulfil the promise of bringing a haulage system to the rural farming communities, stating that the Association should be the first point of contact when the trucks were ready to facilitate the transportation of the produce to the market.
He appealed to the media to spread the information from the farmers because they were the first point of contact to tell the public the real situation on the ground.
Nana Gyamfi Kunanin, Chairman, Farmers and Fisherman Association, Dromankese, Bono East region advised Ghanaians to be nationalistic and avoid politization of issues which affected development.
He called for a national scale system as practiced by Côte d’Ivoire to regulate the prices of foodstuffs in the country and avoid the persistent hikes in food prices.
He urged the Government to speed up in the construction of roads, especially in farming communities to facilitate the transportation of the foodstuffs to the market centres.
The Planting for Food and Jobs is a flagship agricultural Campaign of the Government launched in 2017 with five implementation modules to promote food security and provide jobs in the country.