General News of Thursday, 16 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The Agric Ministry has admitted Ghana faces a possible food shortage• This comes days after calling former president Mahama a 'scare-monger' over similar calls• Ghana has banned export of food in order to stock national reservesDeputy Agric Minister, Yaw Frimpong, has admitted that Ghana faces a possible food shortage days after slamming former President John Dramani Mahama as a scaremonger for raising the issue. “Food security is national security, because it is everybody’s responsibility to ensure that we have food in the system. Late last week, the Ministry of Food and Agriculture via a statement dated 10 September 2021, urged Ghanaians to ignore comments by John Dramani Mahama regarding a possible food shortage in the country next year. Mahama had specifically stated that the shortage was because the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs Programme (PFJ) has failed. The PFJ was introduced in 2017 by the Akufo-Addo led administration which is to ensure sufficient food supply in the country.

Source: GhanaWeb September 16, 2021 06:11 UTC