Ghana: Over-Liberalised Trade Affecting Rice Industry - Grib

26 January 2009

Accra — The country's over liberalized trade system has badly affected the rice industry and this has to be reversed, Mr. Fidelis Avogo, Executive Secretary of the Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB) said.

"Although GRIB is not advocating a blanket trade blackout, it is restating that, rice being a strategic crop needs some enabling conditions to strive and grow from its infant state," he said.

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