Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, has described as untrue suggestions that there was a food crisis in the country, a local daily reported on Friday.
Yaw Frimpong Addo is quoted by the Daily Graphic as saying that there was a clear distinction between food availability and pricing, stressing that Ghanaians were misconstruing the high prices of some foodstuff to mean food shortage.
Mr. Addo has been leading his Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) on a six-day tour of five regions across Ghana.
He explained that the tour was necessitated by the need to debunk statements, especially in Accra and some big cities, that there was a food shortage in the country.
“Around this time of the year, food prices are high, but fortunately for Ghana since 2016 till now, there has been high stock of maize,” he said.
According to him, about 270, 000 metric tonnes of maize were available in about ten (10) satellite markets in the Bono East Region.
However, Mr. Addo sympathised with farmers on the practice where buyers decide to shortchange them by giving them any price for their produce.
“So it is totally false for people to sit somewhere and say that there is maize or food shortage in Ghana,” he said
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