News:
June 14, 2018
Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah had told Parliament seven hundred and fifty jobs had been created for Ghanaians.
The Labour Relations Minister on the 8th of December 2017 appeared on the floor of the House to answer questions on steps being taking to create jobs of Ghanaians.
According to the Employment and Labour Relations Minister, as at the time of his address to the House last year, Planting for Food and Jobs programme had created an estimated 744, 601 and the figure since then had been updated by the Ministry for Food and Agriculture.
He further noted that the jobs created ranges from fertilizer and seed distributions, inputs distributions, to extension services and data processing among others.
And gave the break down as follows, fertilizer distribution nine thousand eight and fifty-three (9,853), seed distribution two thousand, one hundred sixty (2,160) E-Agriculture farm registration and data processing eight sixty-four (864) extension agents two thousand two hundred seventy (2,270) etc.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com