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Rice farmers record bumper harvest but worried over lack of ready market

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  • TAVIE 7 years ago

    WHAT KIND OF NONSE THIS MESSAGE IS SO LONG AS IS CLEAN AND BETTER PROCESSED. SENEGAL HAVE HUGE MARKET FOR RICE AS WELL AS OTHERS

  • De Mentus 7 years ago

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  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    We should stop importing foreign crap into our country and promote our own products

  • Realist 7 years ago

    If this report is correct, MOFA should mop up the bountiful harvest and order all state institutions which depend on government for food to buy rice from designated sales points.The state should ONLY pay for rice procured fro ...
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  • boldman 7 years ago

    kwaku you are right

  • Pinto Beans 7 years ago

    There should be strict restriction on imported rice to our schools and also to Waakyi sellers. These entities must buy the rice bumper harvest. There should be allocation for it in the fat national budget.

  • Patriot 7 years ago

    The government should stop the importation of rice .Why import rice when we do not have market for locally produced rice?Nigeria is saving 5 million dollars a day for stopping rice importation.It is a very wise decision they ...
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  • Fuseini 7 years ago

    If this stories that we are reading is true then where is the blains of our Leaders.It is time the gorvement stop the huge food waist in Ghana.The gorvement should buy from the farmers and built a modern storage system,and st ...
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  • Mr Bond 7 years ago

    There is hunger in southern Sudan,Somalia and Namibia so there is market.It is our minister of trade and agriculture that should contact these drought countries where they lack food to sell the organic wholesome nutrition unc ...
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  • gene 7 years ago

    should be cheaper than American rice or fake china rice

  • Lily 7 years ago

    The trade Minister ought to help these rice farmers re marketing their produce.

  • Citizen 7 years ago

    This farmers are really suffering, some can not even continue with this seasons farming cos they have not yet sold the previous one.Those who were able to start thinking along the way there will be market as it used to be can ...
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  • kofi mensah 7 years ago

    Lack of ready market is one of the major challenges confronting local rice farmers; the creation of a grain development board by government to provide ready market and guaranteed prices could possibly resolve some the problem ...
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  • Qwamy 7 years ago

    This is where government policy comes in. We have close to a thousand senior high boarding schools in Ghana and almost 200 teacher and nursing training colleges. The major if their menu is rice-based.

    What stops us from g ...
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  • abena 7 years ago

    They can be use for nation wide school feeding program. Those in charge should buy from the local producers