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High cost of food prices due to profiteering - Agric Minister speaks - www.asempanews.com

Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister of Food and Agriculture, is blaming the high cost of food items on the market on profiteering.

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Speaking on the August 3 edition of TV3’s Ghana Tonight programme, the Minister explained, “the problem that we are facing about the high cost of food is nothing to do with the shortage of food in the markets.

Highlighting the impact of the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PF&J) initiative, the minister mentioned that citizens of some neighbouring West African countries are trooping to Ghana to buy food due to PF&J.

He said Ghanaians and other residents in Ghana are not experiencing the food shortages that are happening in other parts of Africa because the PF&J has resulted in an abundance of foods.

“Without Planting for Food and Jobs, we’ll be going as hungry as our neighbours around West Africa who are now coming to Ghana as the bread basket to pick our surpluses

“Of course, other west African countries are going hungry that’s why they’re coming to Ghana to pick our food

Planting for Food and Jobs is a flagship agricultural programme of the Akufo-Addo-led government, with five (5) implementation modules.

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