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Falling Standards Of Agric: Incompetent Officers To Blame

As many Ghanaian farmers continue to paint a gloomy picture of agriculture production in this country, an agriculture Consultant and also a former Extension Officer Mr. Shakesphere Djokoto has attributed the decrease in the growth of the Agriculture sector to incompetent Officers at the Ministry of food and Agriculture (MOFA).

According to him majority of the graduates employed in the sector even though are qualified, don’t have the technical know how to turn things for the better.

In an interview with Rite news, Mr. Djokoto stated that agriculture was a field work and not putting on ones best dressed for an office as is the obsession of most graduates without going to the field and inspect various works on the ground.

Mr. Djokoto added that a qualified but incompetent graduate cannot perform well and therefore urged MOFA to recruit competent administrators to supervise these agric officers.

Source: ritefmonline.org

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