General News of Friday, 17 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Government is overblowing successes of its flagship agric programme• The Planting for Foods and Jobs policy is not achieving set targets• GAWU wants an audit of the programme in view of looming food shortageEdward Kareweh, General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union, GAWU, has stated that the successes of the government’s flagship Planting for Foods and Jobs, PFJ, programme; have been overly exaggerated. Speaking on Joy FM’s News Night programme, Kareweh pointed to how the government’s own records showed that previous claims of sufficient food have proven untrue. “The successes of the planting for food and jobs programme have been overly exaggerated. Advancing GAWU’s position on the cause of the shortages, Kareweh stressed the need to address structural challenges in the sector. “So the whole explanation that we have over exported and therefore leading to food shortages in the country is not supported by the challenges on the ground,” he added.

Source: GhanaWeb September 17, 2021 06:11 UTC