By Austin Ofori Addo:
Hon. Alhassan Yakubu, deputy minister of Agric has insisted that there was nothing wrong with Ghana importing foodstuffs from other countries into the country. According to him, food importation is a common practice around the globe and there cannot be anything wrong with it as asserted by the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party.
The deputy minister was reacting to Nana Akuffo Addo’s criticisms of the government that the country in 2015 alone imported over 1.5 billion dollars’ worth of foodstuffs into the country including plantain while it earned just about 2 billion dollars compared to the Ivory Coast’s 12 billion earnings.
Honourable Yakubu noted that in as much as Ghana imported a lot of produce including buying from Ivory Coast, its neighbours, Ivory Coast also crossed into Ghana to buy foodstuffs which is part of the cross-border trade.
He therefore refuted Nana Akuffo Addo’s claim, insisting that the farmers of this country produced more than the quantity needed to feed the sector.
Source: ritefmonline.org
