President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, to release an additional GH\u20b5200 million to purchase surplus maize from farmers affected by the ongoing crop glut.<\/p>\n
The directive comes amid mounting concerns from farmers nationwide over the surplus of maize, rice, and eggs, which has caused significant post-harvest losses and economic hardship across the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the launch of the\u00a0Nkoko Nkitinkiti<\/em>\u00a0Poultry Initiative on Wednesday, November 12, President Mahama said the government had previously released GH\u20b5100 million to address the maize glut, but the issue persisted\u2014necessitating further intervention.<\/p>\n He explained that the new allocation is part of government\u2019s broader strategy to reduce food wastage, boost national food security, and ensure that surplus produce is preserved for use during periods of shortage.<\/p>\n \u201cI have directed the Minister of Finance to release an extra GH\u20b5200 million to buy and stock the excess maize so it can serve the country in the future,\u201d President Mahama said.<\/p>\n He also announced additional measures to support local farmers affected by the rice and egg glut, directing the National Buffer Stock Company to purchase local rice and the Ghana School Feeding Programme to incorporate eggs into students\u2019 meals.<\/p>\n \u201cI have also instructed Buffer Stock to purchase rice from our local farmers to prevent losses. For eggs, I have asked the managers of the school feeding programme to include eggs in student meals,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n President Mahama reaffirmed his administration\u2019s commitment to supporting farmers, stabilising agricultural markets, and safeguarding the country\u2019s food supply chain, stressing that \u201cno Ghanaian farmer should suffer losses because they produced in abundance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, to release an additional GH\u20b5200 million to purchase surplus maize from farmers affected by the ongoing crop glut. The directive comes amid mounting concerns from farmers nationwide over the surplus of maize, rice, and eggs, which has caused significant post-harvest losses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":14412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788,41],"tags":[4324,66,4471],"class_list":["post-14411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-general-news","tag-buffer-stock","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-nkoko-nkitinkiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14413,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14411\/revisions\/14413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}