{"id":443186,"date":"2017-12-03T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/mce-calls-for-strong-investment-in-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T02:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T02:30:41","slug":"mce-calls-for-strong-investment-in-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/mce-calls-for-strong-investment-in-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"MCE calls for strong investment in agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Sunday,  3 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/28943316.295.jpg\" alt=\"Cee6\" title=\"Cee6\" width=\"295\" height=\"315\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mr Albert Okyere, Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512268241_149_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Mr Albert Okyere, the Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive has called for strong and sustainable investments in the agricultural sector to create business opportunities.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe urged private investors to channel their resources into agriculture to promote local production of rice, maize, poultry, livestock, among others to create employment for the youth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okyere made the call when he addressed farmers at this year\u2019s National Farmers Day on the theme: \u201cFarming for Food and Jobs\u201d at Ashaiman on Saturday.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe encouraged the farmers to embrace scientific methods and appropriate technologies to ensure sustainable food production and security to enable the nation to meet its nutritional needs.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okyere said there was the need for appropriate measures to be taken to make agriculture attractive to the youth for them to spearhead the government agenda of \u201cPlanting for Food and Jobs\u201d because the sector has been left in the hands of the old and the aged people.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe MCE assured farmers that the government would continue to put in place the right policies, legislation and incentives such as fertilizers at subsidised prices and to make agro-chemicals available at affordable prices to raise productivity, income and create jobs for the population.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Assembly had put in place an Agricultural Sub-Committee to facilitate urban agriculture programmes in the Ashaiman Municipality.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMr Okyere said the area had experienced outbreak of Avian Flu and African Swine fever within the year and advised farmers, especially those in poultry and pig industry to report immediately of any deaths of their stock to the relevant authorities for urgent attention.<\/p>\n<p>He said a Municipal Taskforce had been put in place to monitor and report on any infestation and congratulated the farmers who won awards for their achievements.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 61 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Sunday, 3 December 2017 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2017-12-03 Mr Albert Okyere, Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive Mr Albert Okyere, the Ashaiman Municipal Chief Executive has called for strong and sustainable investments in the agricultural sector to create business opportunities.&#13; 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