Deputy Agric minister, Yaw Frimpong has conceded that Ghana could face food shortage in months to come.
This comes after the agric ministry called the bluff of former president John Dramani Mahama, labelling him a ‘scaremonger’ after he claimed the country could face possible food shortage over the failure of government’s planting for food and jobs.
During his thank you tour in the Bono region he said the government’s failure to supply farmers with fertilizer this year threatened food security in the country.
However, the agric ministry in a quick rebuttal said Mr Mahama was engaged in cheap politics trying to drive attention away from his ‘do or die’ comment.
However, the ministry seem to have eaten the humble pie after admitting that indeed the country could face a possible food shortage.
“Food security is national security, because it is everybody’s responsibility to ensure that we have food in the system. The availability of it and then the pricing too should be affordable, that is all what everybody is struggling for.
“The situation has arisen as a result of several factors and these factors include the global economic situation in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic which affected even the production of fertilizers and the supply and transportation of these fertilizers.
“And then secondly, the government also because of revenue shortfalls had challenges with payments to fertilizer suppliers and this actually affected agriculture production in the country,” the agric minister admitted on the September 14 edition of Joy FM’s News Night programme.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
