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| 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. |