{"id":15220,"date":"2026-01-27T13:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=15220"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:43:10","slug":"armah-kofi-buah-well-establish-land-banks-to-boost-agricultural-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=15220","title":{"rendered":"Armah-Kofi Buah: We\u2019ll establish Land Banks to boost agricultural investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"266\">The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has announced plans to introduce a\u00a0<strong data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"193\">Land Banks Initiative<\/strong>\u00a0to secure land for large-scale agricultural production and investment.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"268\" data-end=\"424\">Sector Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah revealed the initiative during a working visit by Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"426\" data-end=\"640\">According to Mr. Buah, the Land Banks initiative aims to protect and make available suitable lands for strategic agricultural activities, while removing the land acquisition challenges that often deter investors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"811\">\u201cWe are also working on Land Banks. If we are saying that we want to invest in agriculture, how do we secure these lands for palm production and huge cocoa production?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"1047\">\u201cWe are taking that step to ensure that when you bring investors, they don\u2019t have headaches of where to get the land for palm production. We are working closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1218\">Vice President Prof. Opoku-Agyemang, meanwhile, urged the Ministry to ensure that the Land Banks system is inclusive, particularly for vulnerable groups such as women.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1220\" data-end=\"1488\">\u201cThe Land Banks, remember the women. There are many women who want to farm but who for all kind of reasons do not have access to land. So, if we can reserve some of these land banks for them, they can also contribute their own capabilities to the economy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has announced plans to introduce a\u00a0Land Banks Initiative\u00a0to secure land for large-scale agricultural production and investment. Sector Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah revealed the initiative during a working visit by Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang to the Ministry. According to Mr. Buah, the Land Banks initiative aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":15221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3788,41,4177,18],"tags":[3376,4808,3877],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-general-news","category-natural-resource","category-politics","tag-emmanuel-armah-kofi-buah","tag-land-banks","tag-prof-jane-naana-opoku-agyemang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220","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=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15222,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions\/15222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}