Under its flagship policy-- 'Planting for Food and Jobs'-- government aims to increase the capacity of storage facilities throughout the country in readiness for a bumper harvest at the end of the farming season.
The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, who made this known at a stakeholders' workshop on establishing the Ghana Commodity Exchange in Accra, last week, indicated that it was the vision of government to ride on the back of agriculture to transform the economy of the country.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article