Business News of Tuesday, 4 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comMinister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto last year projected that Ghana will in 2023 be self-sufficient with the production of rice. He said this after rice production in the country jumped from 138,000 metric tonnes in 2016 to 665, 000 in 2019. The Agric Minister noted that this increase in rice production was because the government implemented the Planting for Food and Jobs programme. Minister for Food and Agriculture Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto has said rice production had jumped from 138,000 metric tonnes in 2016 to 665,000 in 2019. He projected that by 2023, the country would have reached self-sufficiency with about 29,000 metric tonnes as surplus to spare.

Source: GhanaWeb May 04, 2021 09:45 UTC