Oversupply of crops raises alarm over future food security
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This will push them to find other options. They will start thinking of how to process their own harvest.
Mr. Nortey attributed the glut largely to policy decisions taken in 2024 when government allowed significant imports of rice and maize to avert shortages during the dry season, followed by relatively strong harvests in 2025.
Just need to cut down on rice and maize imports.
We need more food.
We need a foodbod to manage food supply in this country... construction of silos and also manufacturing companies to process foods in order not to discourage farmers
Fact.
Oversupply yet prices never go down. People tend to unknowingly spend more by buying more when things are cheap. Greedy sellers focus on high prices leading to less volume sold.
Rice in commercial quantities can never be imported into the country without the. connivance of ghanaian workers at the borders.They allow the bags of rice to enter Ghana without duties being paid on them.The government must ...
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