By Prince Paul Amuzu
The Member of Parliament|( MP) for Berekum West in the Brong Ahafo Region who doubles as the Chairman of the Food ,Agricultural and Cocoa Affairs Committee of Parliament, Honorable Kwaku Agyenim Boating has called on all Members of Parliament (MPs) and Ghanaians in general to happily embrace the ‘’Planting for Food and Job’’ policy initiative of the government which is intended to provide jobs and make Ghana self-sufficient in food production.
Speaking in parliament as the Chairman of the Food ,Agricultural and Cocoa Affairs Committee , the MP said, the government had already secured 125 million Canadian Dollars for the project which is expected to take off in March this year ,and that all Ghanaians must be involved to make the project a big success for the benefit of all Ghanaians especially the youth.
According to him, the government‘s one district one factory, and the one district one dam policy is not a mirage. It is policy framework to move the agricultural sector to the highest level thus tackling the irrigation problem by creating means for all-year-round farming to boost the sector and also create more jobs especially for the youth to afford a living.
