The Ahafo Regional Minister, George Boakye is calling on investors to urgently focus attention on the region as food varieties produced in the area are going to waste.
He touted the region’s high production of varieties of foodstuffs which he says contribute to the economic growth and sustainability of the country.
According to him, foodstuffs currently in abundance include tomatoes, pepper, yam, and plantain among others have no buyers as roads leading to villages with such food staffs are inaccessible.
He indicated that food items produced in the region could feed Ghana’s entire population but due to low levels of investments, transportation, and storage, these food items usually go waste.
To this end, he appealed to both local and foreign investors to invest in the region for a satisfactory investment return.
He said, “we are in the full season now, we have a lot of plantain getting rotten whereas we can add value to some and export outside to earn the needed foreign exchange.”
Mr. Boakye was speaking at a media engagement with focus on updates on governance, education, and health organized by the ministry of information for the region on Wednesday, August 17, 2022.
To Mr. Boakye, Ghana’s food inflation rate being pegged at 15% is out of place.
“When the statistical service came out with the food inflation of 15.4%, I said I would not agree. Go and see, tomatoes are getting rotten, pepper everything is there. So when you sit in Accra and try to determine the inflation rate in Ahafo for us, I don’t think we will agree. We will not agree.”
Touching on development in the newly created region, Mr. Boakye said the government’s various developmental interventions are yielding positive results.
He however urged the people of the region to complement the efforts of government in developing the region.
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Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
