Post-harvest losses ruining farmers’ investment

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• Ghanababa! 9 years ago

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• Kwame 9 years ago

  Bring Back Food Distribution Corporation as I have been writing for a long time because that is how India and China reduce post harvest loses and as well make food cheap for their citizens.

  Bring Back Food Distribution Corporation as I have been writing for a long time because that is how India and China reduce post harvest loses and as well make food cheap for their citizens.

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• Agric Investment consultants 9 years ago

  Why do we think so simplistically? we cannot plan beyond production. haba

  Why do we think so simplistically? we cannot plan beyond production. haba

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• KWAME KWAME 9 years ago

  Because of our impatient nature, we Ghanaians have always refused to sacrifice even for a few months when the going get tough. Perhaps due to the socialistic tendencies in the country starting way back from Nkrumah's time, we ...
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  Because of our impatient nature, we Ghanaians have always refused to sacrifice even for a few months when the going get tough. Perhaps due to the socialistic tendencies in the country starting way back from Nkrumah's time, we have been inclined to look to the Government to give us our jobs, health care, education, infrastructure etc. - virtually everything. It is therefore no surprise that Ghanaians in general, especially the educated ones, favor Government work more than making attempts to venture into their own micro and small businesses. Most of us have also abandoned farm work in the rural areas. We have expected our Government (with limited resources)to shoulder all this burden even as our population has increased. This, my friends, is not sustainable for any country even the advanced ones. Our politicians know very well about these Ghanaian qualities. Therefore, in order for the Government of the day to retain power, they spend so much time and money preparing our 5 year National development plan only for them to be put on the shelves. They try their best to run the economy by solving the short-term ad hoc problems. The end result is that the fundamentals required for real economic growth is never tackled well and remain on sinking ground. This explains the booms and bursts we have been witnessing over the years with the economy.
  
  SOLUTION:
  
  As Ghanaians we should understand that we can develop our economy only through the development of the PRIVATE SECTOR - those micro, small and medium size (the mom and pop) businesses. We need to create millions and millions of these type of businesses in the country. The private sector is not the Government. It is YOU and ME. The individual Ghanaians.
  We should not expect the Government to provide all the businesses, infrastructure and other social amenities with its limited resources.
  
  The role of Government is to provide conducive environment for the private sector or businesses to thrive better.
  
  I therefore implore our men and women especially those living in the cities and big towns to change their attitudes and try their hands on their own small businesses. We should also trust one another and form partnerships to create medium size businesses. If most of us are making, creating and innovating things, we would be transforming our economy into an industrial/ manufacturing and service economy where the jobs are with higher wages and more sustainable. Let's change our attitudes and start now to come up with new business ideas and proposals which we will take to the bank and seek financing to bring them to fruition. The Government alone cannot handle the huge unemployment problem. Check where you are living now. Find out what you can make, create or innovate in the country that can be sold to others or exported and you have a business. (NOTE THE WORDS ARE MAKE, CREATE AND INNOVATE & NOT BUY AND SELL). The first step is the hardest but take some risks and start something and you will realize that help will come your way.
  
  A lot of our youth do not want to go into farming. Therefore we need to introduce mechanized farming in order to increase productivity on the same acre of land for food security and exports. Our Agricultural Engineering colleges at Legon, KNUST, Cape Coast etc. must stop those theoretical programs and start to design and help manufacture these farm implements - ploughs, harvesters etc. and irrigation systems to make this possible. We can start with not so sophisticated machines but simple home grown ones as the Indians have done.
  
  If we play our part, we will give our Government the space to carry out the medium to long term development goals including strengthening of our Government institutions, infrastructure, social, regulations, rule of law etc. which normally take longer period to implement but will help us to build our economy on solid rock which will be rather more sustainable.
  
  
  In effect, Ghana needs an INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO TRANSFORM THE ECONOMY. THAT SHOULD BE STARTED BY YOU AND I, WITH GOVERNMENT PROVIDING THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR THESE NEW PRIVATE BUSINESSES TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL.

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