Government Has Completed 51 Warehouses Out Of The 80 Promised - Agric Minister

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has revealed that out of the eighty warehouses being built across the country, 51 of them are ready. He said at the Nation Building updates series on Tuesday November 3 that the government will soon commission the completed warehouses. “We decided that we were

going to build 80  warehouses across the country  and I am glad to report  that out of the 80, 51 are ready to be handed over to me,” he said. He added “We inherited a warehouse capacity of 34,000 metric tons  and we are able to add  80,000 metric tons  capacity.” He further revealed that the government of President Nana Addo

Dankwa Akufo Addo has given three hundred pickups to extension officers. This, he said, is to enable them assist farmers with best farming practices to improve on their yields. Afriyie Akoto said that the government is determined to ensure food security in the country, hence the investment. “Three hundred pick ups have

been given to extension officers so that they can move with the farmer and teach them modern methods of farming,” he said. The government, he noted, also intends to make horticulture a major source of foreign exchange earnings. “We want to make horticulture major source of foreign exchange earnings fort Ghana. We want to change the whole narrative and we will be exporting more. We can make it,” he said. The programme was on the theme: ‘Becoming the West African Food Basket’