The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, launched the second phase of “Planting for Food and Jobs” at the University of Development Studies Tamale. However, assessments made of the first phase have shown the second phase is likely to fail if not intervened by experts and well coordinated.
Speaking on Metro Business TV news, Charles Nyaaba, Executive Director of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, revealed that many farms under the Planting for Food and Jobs saw a great retardation of their farm production.
Further analysis proved that the farm inputs distributed to the registered farmers, such as planting seeds, fertilizers, and agrochemicals, were of poor quality.
Charles Nyaaba further revealed that farmers had no option but to go back to purchasing their farm input to solve the retardation of their production. Currently, the farmers under the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana see better yields than when they received farm inputs from the agencies responsible for distributing farm inputs under the Planting for Food and Job Project.
Joining in on the conversation by Anthony Kofituo Morrison, the CEO of the Chamber of Agriculture Ghana, currently, farmers in Ghana may not engage so much with the second phase of the Planting for Food and Jobs.
Mr. Anthony Kofituo Morrison highlighted politically driven purposes where the people in charge of sourcing and distributing farm input do not have the knowledge and expertise on farming and its related activities.
He stated there is too much political interference when assigning the right task to the right people for the success of the Planting for Food and Jobs.
Another challenge he highlighted was the unclear definition of job creation under the Planting and Food Project. The policy did not clearly state whether the Jobs will be a permanent or temporary for all participants.
Anthony Kofituo couldn’t give any number of jobs created under the project because as it stands now there is not data to make reference to. We only hope to see economic purpose driven players in the second phase for the success of Agriculture in Ghana.
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