{"id":767757,"date":"2019-12-18T20:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/18\/kufuor-foundation-rice-millers-hail-nana\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T20:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T20:32:41","slug":"kufuor-foundation-rice-millers-hail-nana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/18\/kufuor-foundation-rice-millers-hail-nana\/","title":{"rendered":"Kufuor Foundation, Rice Millers Hail Nana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation, the Ghana Rice Interprofessional Body (GRIB), and other stakeholders, have lauded President Nana Akufo-Addo for directing all State institutions to procure Ghana rice.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Akufo-AddoAddo during his recent media encounter, announced that beginning from January 2020, all State institutions, agencies and departments should consume made in Ghana rice.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah, addressing the media at a press conference on Wednesday in Accra, said \u201cthe President\u2019s directive comes at a very opportune time when local producers, together with Government and importers are working out modalities for import substitution in the rice sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Agyeman-Duah added that \u201cwe are unreservedly happy by the President\u2019s directive that all State institutions should procure Ghana rice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that directive will go a long way to revitalize the Ghanaian rice industry \u201cwhich has been blighted by decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated the commitment of stakeholders in the sector to creating a viable domestic rice industry, with the aim of making Ghana self-sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cwe believe that the government\u2019s target of achieving self-sufficiency in rice production by 2023 is achievable and we will work to support this goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Measures<\/p>\n<p>Outlining measures to support the realization of the President\u2019s vision, he noted that \u201cthe Foundation and it\u2019s partners shall, as a matter of urgency, work out strategies for improving service delivery by developing a monitoring mechanism to ensure that public institutions adhere to the directive of the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Foundation shall in partnership with other stakeholders, evolve effective and institutionalized monitoring and evaluation frameworks\/strategies for monitoring and or evaluating the compliance with the directive.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the CEO noted that the Foundation shall support the value chain actors to forge closer ties to address the challenges of the rice sector and create the most conducive environment.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the interest of the Kufuor Foundation is to ensure that Ghana becomes rice self-sufficient and by so-doing save the country an amount of $1.3 billion used to import rice annually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation, the Ghana Rice Interprofessional Body (GRIB), and other stakeholders, have lauded President Nana Akufo-Addo for directing all State institutions to procure Ghana rice. 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Chief Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kufuor Foundation, Rice Millers Hail Nana - 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\/18\/kufuor-foundation-rice-millers-hail-nana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kufuor Foundation, Rice Millers Hail Nana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation, the Ghana Rice Interprofessional Body (GRIB), and other stakeholders, have lauded President Nana Akufo-Addo for directing all State institutions to procure Ghana rice. 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