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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Ghana's drive for food
Author:Anonymous
Year:1962
Periodical:West Africa
Issue:2369
Page:1179
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:agriculture
food
Abstract:Four factors lie behind the new emphasis on the importance of food production in the Ghana Government's policies: saving of foreign currency; avoidance of inflation as the Volta Projectgets under way; the need to find employment for the Workers Brigade's 'Agricultural Wing'; improvement of standards of nutrition. The Government, with Mr. Krobo Edusei as Minister of Agriculture, has four 'production fronts' in agriculture: Agricultural co-operatives (United Ghana Farmers' Co-operative); the States Farms Corporation; the Workers Brigade; the Ghana Fisheries Corporation. The policy means, among other things, increased acreage and intensive agriculture. Minor training facilities and farm mechanisation training centres are under construction. The article gives also figures, on the scale of the Governments' proposed farming.
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