Work completed on the 1000 metric ton grain warehouse

Business News for Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-10-13

The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated a finished 1000 metric ton grain warehouse in Asaam near Asante-Mampong in the Ashanti region.

The project, carried out within the framework of the Infrastructure Program for the Eradication of Poverty (IPEP), was supervised by the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives (MSDI).

It is in line with the agenda of the Government of Ghana to boost food storage and production, thus ensuring food security in the country.

Alhaji Dr. Bawumia described the project as timely given the high cost of food losses in the country.

The administration led by Nana Akufo-Addo, he said, was committed to alleviating the plight of farmers to increase productivity.

Statistics from the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) had shown that at least 30 percent of the country’s agricultural production is lost annually due to post-harvest losses, a situation that reduces farmers’ income.

This tends to make farming unattractive and also inhibits efforts to ensure food security while perpetuating poverty among a significant number of farmers in Ghana.

According to the vice president, the ruling New Patriotic Party (PNP) had made significant progress in fulfilling its campaign promises to improve the lives of farmers.

He said the country’s economy, based on agriculture, was expanding through the necessary investment in agriculture, to create more job opportunities for people.

Nana Nyamaa Sarfo Sipong Panin II, head of Asaam, said that Asante-Mampong and its surroundings stood out for their high production of grains and other staple crops.

Therefore, the project came at the appropriate time when many farmers were dealing with food losses due to unavailability of storage facilities, he added.