{"id":648745,"date":"2019-07-02T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GHANA IS hoping to reduce its meat\nimport by 95 per cent over the next five years as it aggressively rolls out its\nnew agricultural programme, the Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<"},"modified":"2019-07-02T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T12:38:16","slug":"rearing-for-food-and-jobs-catalyst-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/02\/rearing-for-food-and-jobs-catalyst-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Rearing For Food And Jobs; Catalyst For Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GHANA IS hoping to reduce its meat<br \/>\nimport by 95 per cent over the next five years as it aggressively rolls out its<br \/>\nnew agricultural programme, the Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister of<br \/>\nAgriculture has said within two years from the commencement of the RFJ<br \/>\ninitiative, \u201cmeat import will reduce by 70% and 95% by year 5.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RFJ project, he said, \u201cIs expected<br \/>\nto generate 24,516 direct jobs in the first year and would increase to<br \/>\n1,336,165 by year 5. A total of 1,558,860 direct and indirect jobs would be<br \/>\ngenerated by the fifth year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minister has revealed that \u201cit is<br \/>\nalso expected that total revenue of GH\u20b5690,741,181 would be generated from<br \/>\nproduction of these animals by year 2 and increase in year 5 to GH\u20b5<br \/>\n4.03billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, according to the Minister, stands<br \/>\nto gain immensely from the Rearing for Food and Jobs initiative.<\/p>\n<p>On<br \/>\nMonday, June 24, President Akufo-Addo assisted by the minister launched the RFJ<br \/>\ninitiative in Wa, which is another module of his administration\u2019s flagship<br \/>\nprogramme \u2013Planting for Food and Jobs. The campaign will run for 5<br \/>\nyears, from 2019 to 2023, <\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, the RFJ initiative<br \/>\nwould among other things help \u201cto develop a competitive and more efficient<br \/>\nlivestock industry that increases domestic production, reduces importation of<br \/>\nlivestock products and contributes to employment generation and to the<br \/>\nimprovement of livelihoods of livestock value chain actors and the national<br \/>\neconomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Data from the Ministry indicates that<br \/>\nthe country\u2019s livestock industry prior to the launch of the RFJ had \u201cnational<br \/>\nmeat requirement at <strong>400,200MT<\/strong> based<br \/>\non per capita consumption of meat <strong>(13.8kg)<br \/>\n(Population 29 million).\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statistics revealed that estimated<br \/>\nmeat imports stood at 243,000MT (Poultry about 200,000MT, other meats 43 000MT).<\/p>\n<p>Estimated Local meat production (4yr<br \/>\nAv.) stood at 42,198MT, it said, adding that meat available for consumption<br \/>\n(2018) was about<strong> 285,198mt <\/strong>(imports<br \/>\n+ local production)<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry reported a meat deficit of<br \/>\nabout 115,000MT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, an assessment<br \/>\nit carried out \u201cindicated that there would be direct and indirect copious and<br \/>\nvaried benefits and impacts from the RFJ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It revealed that \u201cin the short term, the<br \/>\nprogramme would lead to increased production and value addition of the selected<br \/>\nlivestock and poultry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It added that \u201cfor instance, it is estimated that meat production volumes would generally increase from year 2 from 170,016MT to 794,493MT in year 5 (an increase of 367.2%) and livestock numbers will increase from 117,043,945 in year 2 to 513,134,435 in year 5 (increase of 338.4%).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto GHANA IS hoping to reduce its meat import by 95 per cent over the next five years as it aggressively rolls out its new agricultural programme, the Rearing for Food and Jobs (RFJ). 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