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Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto says AGRA is the only development partner to understand Government’s flagship agricultural transformation programme, Planting for Food and Jobs.
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The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is the only development partner that understood and believed in the vision of the Government of Ghana’s flagship agricultural transformation programme, Planting for Food and Jobs, at the outset, and has supported it since, according to the Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie-Akoto.
Not only did AGRA understand the vision to transform Ghana’s agriculture, it practicalised its support in many ways – providing technical support, supplying critically needed capital, making available priceless expertise and helping break the programmes into practical modules to ensure a successful outlay.
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On the back of many difficulties and despair, the NPP was given the reins of government in 2016 by the good people of Ghana.
With a strong leadership, the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led government set out to fix the country and through pragmatic programs and policies were able to
1. Inflation has been reduced from 15.4% in 2016 to 10.4% at the end of 2020
2. Reduced average lending rates from 32% in 2016 to 21% in 2020.
3. The average exchange rate depreciation over the last four years (7.3%) is the lowest for any first-term government since 1992. The year 2020 recorded the lowest rate of depreciation in the last 28 years.
The African Cashew Alliance (ACA) has called on African governments to provide an enabling policy environment conducive for business to help position African cashew producers among the leaders in cashew production in the world.
This, ACA believes, is critical to help African countries involved in the cashew industry, fully take advantage of the booming market for cashew in Europe and the USA.
The Managing Director of ACA, Mr Ernest Mintah, while acknowledging the development in Ghana’s cashew sector with the inauguration of the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA), said it was not enough as an unwavering support was needed to make it become operational and to be able to fulfil its obligations.
Farmers urged to embrace cashew cultivation
May 5, 2021 Mr Seth Osei Akoto speaking to some of the farmers
The Director of Crop Services at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Mr Seth Osei Akoto, has urged farmers in the northern part of the country especially, the Upper East and Upper West regions to embrace the cultivation of cashew.
The move, he said would help reduce desertification of the Savannah Regions and also mitigate the impact of climate change on the ecosystem.
“Per the climate change effect on farming and the environment at large, cashew has the future when it comes to addressing the menace. Cashew is resilient, and a very hard tree making climate change effect on it minimal,” he said.
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BY: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
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The African Cashew Alliance (ACA) has called on African governments to provide an enabling policy environment conducive for business to help position African cashew producers among the leaders in cashew production in the world.
This, ACA believes, is critical to help African countries involved in the cashew industry, fully take advantage of the booming market for cashew in Europe and the USA.
The Managing Director of ACA, Mr Ernest Mintah, while acknowledging the development in Ghana’s cashew sector with the inauguration of the Tree Crop Development Authority (TCDA), said it was not enough as an unwavering support was needed to make it become operational and to be able to fulfil its obligations.