The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has revealed plans of his government to build 1,000 metric tones capacity of warehouses in each of the 216 districts of Ghana.
The facilities, according to the Ghanaian leader, will provide handling and storage base for the surpluses anticipated under his ambitious Planting for Food and Jobs initiative.
President Akufo-Addo revealed this when he addressed the country at the campaign launch of the Planting for Food and Jobs held at the Nana Bosomprah I Park, Goaso in the Brong Ahafo Region on Wednesday, April 19, 2017.
The Planting for Food and Jobs campaign is one of the priority projects of the President aimed at creating direct and indirect employment to an estimated 750,000 employed youth across the country.
Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, commenting on the warehousing facilities said the infrastructure when installed will be leased out to private sector operators to process, store and market farm produce.
“These facilities should provide the opportunity for a commodity exchange for the first time in the history of this country,” he noted.
He also disclosed that the government will use its procurement functions to create demand for the anticipated surpluses for the Planting for Food and Jobs campaign.
For instance, Dr. Akoto Afriyie said his ministry will enter to a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Health to ensure that purchases of foodstuffs to the School Feeding Program, colleges, hospitals and other state institutions give priority to the surpluses of the food to be produced under the Plantinf for Food and Jobs initiative.
The Planting for Food and Jobs program has an overall objective to produce enough food to feed the nation, export the surpluses, reduce the excessive food import bill and generate employment for the unemployed youth in agriculture and allied sectors.
Source: kasapafmonline.com
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Who no know sey God Dey! He Dey Paaa! For God to give Ghana This President for such a time as this is a real miracle no matter whatever negative thing one should say about this. Our lives are much better; petrol prices reduced, taxes either reduced or abolished, Planting for Food and Jobs, One district one factory et al. Oh Oyakonpon, yeda wasi piiii. If it had gone the other way, Hmmmmmm! Ghana shall work again! Long Live the President, Long live NPP and Long Live Ghana!
Eiiiii Nana Addo, Nana naaa adzeeeennnn. Yes its ambitious but to wo bo na obiaaa nsomaaa wo.We naaaa we vote for u but pls slow down and achieve tins one by one. Even God Himself didnt make allllllll tins one day,but he culd coz He is God. Nana oneeeeeee, Nana Twoooooooo yoooooooooo
hi, nana addo cant tell Ghanaians that their life is better for the past 4 months he took over, ghanians are more poor, more hungry and more frustrated and destitute than he took over , he should allow ghanains to express them self instead of telling us that he and his party have than well, ghana people dont see it that way, after the end of april2017, if the one district one factory is not in operation ,then there will be mass demonstration all over ghana for 21 days, from concern people of ghana,
Nana God is really on your side. Bravo
Honestly, Nana is a foreseen leader...
NDC MPs will become endangered species after 2020 elections......
Very soon he will promise every woman two huge pe............s!
I blame mahama for letting us lose.if npp should fulfil 70% of its promise we are doomed forever.lordina and Ibrahim mahama are just u$eless in the party
We don't have to import rice ever
No no build silos