Given the recent drought that has affected Northern Ghana, the IMANI Africa’s Founding President Franklin Cudjoe said that the country needs to deemphasize rain fed agriculture. Indeed, he opined that the only way of dealing with food crises due to drought is to diversify farming practices.
Cudjoe also berated the government’s existing ‘One Village, One Dam’ policy which aimed at promoting irrigation and enhancing agricultural productive capacity in the countryside under the Akufo-Addo led regime.
The government has confirmed to the menace of food insecurity and at the same time assured that it is putting measures in place to combat the menace. The Minister of Finance Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam has revealed government’s plans to mobilize five hundred million United States dollars equivalent of about eight billion Ghana Cedis to fund food security projects in the country.
SOURCE https://dew360.net
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