News:
November 16, 2018
As a means of boosting livestock production in the country, Government will soon launch the livestock model of Planting for Food and Jobs.
The move to be christened “Rearing for Food and Jobs” (RFJ) with the objective of increasing the production of selected livestock, especially poultry is largely aimed at revamping the entire agriculture sector of the economy.
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta disclosed this to members of Parliament when he presented the 2019 Economic Policy and Budget Statement to Parliament said the initiative will reduce Ghana’s food import burden.
“We believe we can leverage the PFJ and RFJ programmes and our other efforts in agriculture to reduce our large food imports. As a country, we spend over $2 billion every year importing food. For example, we import over a billion dollars of rice, $ 320 million of sugar, and $374 million of poultry” he said.
The Minority on the other hand indicated that the budget portends no hope and it just remains a rehash of the old budgets.
By Christian Kpesese/ ghanamps.com