{"id":759767,"date":"2019-12-06T16:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/i-eat-local-rice-with-my-wife-follow-my-example-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:55:18","slug":"i-eat-local-rice-with-my-wife-follow-my-example-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/i-eat-local-rice-with-my-wife-follow-my-example-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"413\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/image-98-696x413.png\"   alt=\"I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo tells Ghanaians\" title=\"I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo tells Ghanaians\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo tells Ghanaians <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to patronise locally-grown rice during his speech at the 35th edition of the National Farmers\u2019 Day. <\/p>\n<p>At the event, which was held in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, under the theme: \u2018Enhancing Small-Scale Agriculture towards Agribusiness Development,\u201d President Akufo-Addo lauded farmers for their hard work and dedication to agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ghana is spending huge sums of money on rice being imported into the country, hence, the need to eat locally-grown rice to boost the agricultural sector financially.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must eat what we grow to motivate our farmers to support development. Indeed! Rebecca, my beautiful wife insists we eat local rice at home. I call on all Ghanaians to follow my example and eat local rice,\u201d he urged Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me assure all and sundry that government will support agriculture to make the sector one of the driving forces of transforming the economy. Our efforts are being recognised at the international level through interests being shown by foreign investors,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo tells Ghanaians President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to patronise locally-grown rice during his speech at the 35th edition of the National Farmers\u2019 Day. At the event, which was held in the Volta Regional capital, Ho, under the theme: \u2018Enhancing Small-Scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/i-eat-local-rice-with-my-wife-follow-my-example-akufo-addo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"I eat local rice with my wife, follow my example \u2013 Akufo-Addo tells Ghanaians President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to patronise locally-grown rice during his speech at the 35th edition of the National Farmers\u2019 Day. 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