{"id":461114,"date":"2018-02-03T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/prove-745000-jobs-claim-gawu-to-agric-ministry\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:00:29","slug":"prove-745000-jobs-claim-gawu-to-agric-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/prove-745000-jobs-claim-gawu-to-agric-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Prove 745,000 jobs claim \u2013 GAWU to Agric Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  3 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-03<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/31802543.295.jpg\" alt=\"Afriyie Akoto Wild\" title=\"Afriyie Akoto Wild\" width=\"295\" height=\"162\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The Agric Minister said that the 745,000 jobs were &#8216;unofficial&#8217;<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517666429_330_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The General Agricultural Workers\u2019 Union (GAWU) thinks the government\u2019s estimate of 745,000 jobs provided under the planting for food and jobs programme might be exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>Admitting that he couldn\u2019t \u201cvouch for those figures,\u201d the Union\u2019s General Secretary, Edward Kareweh said on Eyewitness News that the number will have to be treated to more scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr. Afriyie Akoto announced that 745,000 jobs had been created under the first phase of the Planting for Food and Jobs programme with the caveat that the jobs were \u201cunofficial jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister explained to the media that the jobs were created in rural areas and were essentially not taxable and did not contribute to pension funds following the earlier scepticism that met the announced figure.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were based on the number of additional inputs as well as improved seeds and fertilizers supplied to participating farmers in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jobs must be tangible<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kareweh expects the jobs created in the sector to be tangible as he noted that \u201cif someone is in employment, you can see, so it is easier to verify. When you don\u2019t see, it does not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he said the government needed to show how those jobs are generated because \u201cif we are indeed able to generate such jobs, it would endear confidence in whatever we are doing and then, within a very short period, in our development trajectory, we will be able to curb the huge unemployment levels in our economy. But for the 745,000 jobs, we need to interrogate it further and the minister needs to come out much and prove to all of us that indeed these jobs have been created.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To highlight how the figures could possibly be skewed, Mr. Kareweh remarked that, \u201ceven within the crop sub-sector, it is only five crops that were targeted and only five crops with 200,000 farmers could generate 745,000 jobs for us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Per the government\u2019s trajectory, he said the crop sector alone could generate 2 million jobs and \u201cwithin two years, there will virtually be no unemployment in this country and that doesn\u2019t appear to be so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from this, Mr. Kareweh said the jobs created needed to be sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you give jobs to someone for only a short period, two days or five days, that is not the type of job we are talking about and no one can live on a five-day job that has been given to them\u2026 we need to actually move beyond just putting the figures out there and also talk about jobs people can live on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 43 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>General News of Saturday, 3 February 2018 Source: citifmonline.com 2018-02-03 The Agric Minister said that the 745,000 jobs were &#8216;unofficial&#8217; The General Agricultural Workers\u2019 Union (GAWU) thinks the government\u2019s estimate of 745,000 jobs provided under the planting for food and jobs programme might be exaggerated. Admitting that he couldn\u2019t \u201cvouch for those figures,\u201d the Union\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}