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Flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP ), and a former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has urged constituents of
Minister for Food and Agriculture, Ghana
Welcome to the owusuafriyieakoto.com. It is my personal page dedicated to telling the story of a man you may have known for years from afar and probably misunderstood. For years you have known me to be a lawmaker, the honorable Member of Parliament for Kwadaso in the Ashanti Region. Most recently,
I have been and still am, the Minister of Agriculture, or the man determined to make food cheaper and readily available all year round, not just to my fellow Ghanaians but to Africans in the sub-region.
Planting for Food and Jobs is a flagship agricultural Campaign of the Government of Ghana.
It was officially launched by H. E. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo at Goaso on April 19, 2017 in the then Brong Ahafo Region.
The campaign has (5) modules. They include:
The food crops subsector in Ghana is dominated by smallholder farmers whose cropping practices are characterized by:
I. inadequate use of productivity – enhancing technologies
II.low use of quality seeds and fertilizers
III.weak market linkages.
These practices, collectively hinder growths in farm productivity.
In response to these challenges, the Government through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) initiated the first flagship module– Planting for Food and Jobs(PFJ) campaign in 2017.
TENETS OF THE CAMPAIGN
The tenets of the initiative are to;
GOAL OF THE CAMPAIGN
The goal of the programme is to;
Modernize the agriculture sector of the economy in order to:
OBJECTIVE OF THE CAMPAIGN
Implementation Approach
The adopted approaches aim to:
Motivating Tools
The program focuses on providing:
Flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP ), and a former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has urged constituents of
Former Minister for Food and Agriculture and flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party ( NPP ), Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, filed and submitted his
Flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party ( NPP), Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has urged global investors to make Africa their first port of call
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The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto has been honoured with a Pan African Heroes Award as the Best Performing Minister in the last three years of the NPP administration.
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