There’s no food shortage in Ghana – Deputy Agric Minister

The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Yaw Frimpong Addo, has stated that it was not true that there is a food crisis in the country.

He said there is a clear distinction between food availability and pricing, stressing that Ghanaians are misinterpreting the high prices of some foodstuff to mean food shortages.

He explained that his outfit’s tour was informed by statements, especially in Accra and some big cities, that there was a food shortage in the country.

“Around this time of the year, food prices are high, but fortunately for Ghana since 2016 till now, there has been high stock of maize,” he noted.

“So it is totally false for people to sit somewhere and say that there is maize or food shortage in Ghana,” he stressed.

The deputy Minister used the chance to debunk statements in certain quarters that the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme of the Akufo-Addo administration has failed.

But ever since we started the Planting for Food and Jobs initiative in 2017 till now, records available at the Techiman maize market indicate that these same trucks from Niger come to buy maize and other foodstuff from the Techiman market to Niger,” he indicated.