Business News of Monday, 18 March 2019Source: ghanaiantimes.com.ghGhana to become self-sufficient in rice productionAugustine Collins Ntim, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural DevelopmentGhana is to become self-sufficient in rice production by the year 2025. The disclosure is couched in the Akufo-Addo government’s newly introduced initiative on rice production, strategically structured as an arm of its flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme, to boost the production of the crop in the country. The hard truth is that some efforts made in the past to resolve the rice importation puzzle virtually failed to produce the desired results rendering it a seemingly intractable enterprise. It therefore stands to reason that any news on Ghana achieving self-sufficiency status in rice production, let alone stop rice importation appears a rather far cry or far-fetched and will naturally be taken with a pinch of salt. The new initiative on rice cultivation and production must not only survive but more important, become a success story this time.

Source: GhanaWeb March 18, 2019 02:48 UTC