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GIMPA Deserves Praise is how the Daily Graphic titles its editorial. The paper believes that without a well-trained human resource the country's development agenda cannot be attained. It says, it is therefore not surprising that the NDC chose as its slogan, investing in Job Creation, people and Economy during the last elections. The Graphic is however worried that apart from the six public Universities that specialize in specific disciplines, most of the private institutions are concentrating on particular disciplines to the detriment of other crucial areas of the economy.

It is against this background that the Graphic shares in the call by the Vice President for the establishment of strong institutions that will help transform the economy. The Daily Graphic therefore commends GIMPA for blazing the trail in this regard and urges it to expand its horizon further to admit many youths and the working class.

The Ghanaian Times takes a look at the paradigm shift in the agriculture sector of the economy. The paper is critical about an advertisement by a so-called Local Representative of an Italian company asking local farmers to grow tomatoes for a high fee. According to the advertiser, he has about fifteen thousand dollars to be paid to about 100,000 farmers who would be required to plant quantity of tomatoes. The paper says by is technology and calculations, the advertiser is certain that about one-hundred thousand farmers would produce thirty metric tones of tomatoes each year.

The Times believes that all that the advertiser is doing is making a plea to Ghanaians to love themselves a little by giving an opportunity for farmers to grow the company's brand of tomatoes in return for ready cash. As a result, the tomatoes will then be converted into puree in a Ghanaian tomato canning factory. The paper is of the view that if the mathematics of his presentation is realistic, then the economic planning team, the academia and the Ministry of Agriculture have not been up to the task and therefore questions the paradigm under which the country's agriculture has been planned and executed since 1957.