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60% of rice produced locally - Mahama

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  • DONBOLI 8 years ago

    So where is our money, we want our money back from the importers and GNTC.
    WHY is John Mahama lying about Rice. Who will eat small stones, what John Mahama is calling Rice. Ghanaians Rice is full of stones. What is all that ...
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  • Yaanom 8 years ago

    You should have asked the Ministry of Trade for the real figure. In 2008 rice imports hit $400m per annum. The biggest rice local farm then was Aveyime Rice Ltd.

    That company is still in the doldrums. So where from this lo ...
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  • lies 8 years ago

    just churning out lies

  • BOLINAA 8 years ago

    Useless advicers hanging around John Mahama. 60% of anything is something you can see. So $160 million the government have saved, right.
    It is because people don't have jobs, no money to buy good imported Rice.

  • Ogyam 8 years ago

    That is the way Ghana must go.

    Domestication...as propounded my Late Dan Lartey.

  • PATRIOT 8 years ago

    This is the surest way for the nation to develop and create jobs for its citizens.The government should stop the importation of anything that can be produced in Ghana.Why should the nation import food from outside,especially ...
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  • mr amin. 8 years ago

    Mr president where are those rise? Every where is imported rise.

  • TAVI 8 years ago

    WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO LIE TO OURSELVES. OH BLACK PEOPLE, SHOW ME DEVELOPED BLACK NATION NON. ASK THIS PRESIDENT GHANAIANS CAN PUT A CHALLENGE ANY DAY