Tuesday 19th November, 2019
By
Comfort Sena Fetrie, GNA,
Tamale, Nov. 19, GNA
– Mr Ibrahim Akalbila, Coordinator of the Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition,
has urged government to develop credible policies to monitor and evaluate
agricultural systems to provide reliable data on its performance.
Mr Akalbila, said
such a policy would help to analyse government’s performance for sustainable
agriculture programmes to enhance food security in the country.
He made the call in
Tamale during a training workshop for Media practitioners on gender responsive
budgeting.
The event was to
train the Journalists on how to report on gender responsive budgeting to enable
them develop interest in the subject area and do extensive reporting on.
According to him,
government should empower the youth, Women and Person’s With Disability to
acquire the skills for farming, which he said would promote government’s
special programme “the Planting for Food and Jobs”.
Mr Akalbila noted
that as part of the Planting for Food and Job programme, government should
create avenues to promote and market farmers and farm produce to sustain
interest and encourage more young people to venture into the agriculture
sector, which he said would promote the economic wellbeing of the farmers.
He stated that most
of the farmers in the rural areas had no access to subsidised fertilizers and
some also rejected the seeds being provided by the government claiming it did
not meet their target desires and said such issues popping up from PFJ ought to
be addressed with intensity to bring sanity into the area.
GNA
