Ghana Rice inter Professional Body, an advocacy group which seeks to promote the rice industry in the coutnry has called on government to channel funds generated from the tariffs on imported rice into a rice development fund to be used by rice farmers to develop the sector.
The group made the call at a workshop organized in Accra.
It appealed to Ghanaians to patronize the local rice whose quality can be compared to that of imported rice generally. The group said the consumption of local rice will help bring down the price of rice.
In another development, the Director of Plant Protection Unit of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Vesper Soglo has expressed worry over the wrong utilization of land, seeds and fertilizers in the country.
He said the inefficient use of farm inputs contributes to the acute food shortage in the country.
Mr. Soglo called on farmers to modernize their operations to ensure food security.
He urged the seed producers Association of Ghana (seedPag) to support the Youth in Agriculture Programme to generate employment and mitigate the rural urban migration.
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Is about time the government look into this and make it a priority because Ghana shouldn't keep importing food and if North America such as Canada have severe winter can grow within three months and havest as well store food to use during winter, there is no excuse for a country that have no winter and lots of water bodies all over the country is pure laziness and lack of foresight, lack of knowledge. Is about this nation becomes smarter and not to wait for handouts. Channel the money into buy...