{"id":1068712,"date":"2022-04-27T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/ghana-is-well-positioned-to-be-self-sufficient-in-food-production-oppong-nkrumah\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:07:13","slug":"ghana-is-well-positioned-to-be-self-sufficient-in-food-production-oppong-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/ghana-is-well-positioned-to-be-self-sufficient-in-food-production-oppong-nkrumah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana is well positioned to be self-sufficient in food production\u2014Oppong Nkrumah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, April 26, GNA- Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister of Information, says Ghana is well positioned to reduce food insecurity and attain self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n
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He said with the introduction of the Tuesday Market, the country would be in the best position to outsource a lot of its products from the farm gate.<\/div>\n
Mr Oppong Nkrumah said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on the sidelines of the “Tuesday Market” initiative launched by the Ghana Exim Bank in Accra.<\/div>\n
“Tuesday Market\u201d is a platform created by GEXIM for its clients and producers of Made-In-Ghana products to showcase their products.<\/div>\n
It also serves as a one-stop shop for the public to purchase anything locally manufactured from nicely packaged food items, cosmetic products, garments and textiles to leather products.<\/div>\n
He said it would also give farmers the opportunity to produce more for export.<\/div>\n
“Once we are expanding to produce more, it will also be creating more jobs, while gaining enough foreign exchange,” he said.<\/div>\n
The Minister said the Ghana Export Promotion Authority was also ready and prepared to help with financial support for businesses.<\/div>\n
He said the move would help in the industrialisation agenda of the country, urging the exhibitors to interact and engage with stakeholders to have some of their challenges resolved.<\/div>\n
On packaging, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said the exhibition demonstrated that Ghanaian businesses could also package their products for the international market.<\/div>\n
“The packaging of products by notion that businesses have improved drastically and needed to be commended,” he added.<\/div>\n
Mr Lawrence Agyinsam, the Chief Executive of the Ghana Exim Bank, said the forum would enable exhibitors to learn about standardisation to meet international demand.<\/div>\n
He said the Bank had created an enabling environment for training and provided financial support to businesses.<\/div>\n
“In order to be self-sufficient we need the Ghanaian people to participate and patronise made in Ghana products,” he said.<\/div>\n
He said it was time to support and showcase Made in Ghana to the world, adding that, “Let’s prosper as a nation by producing, promoting and purchasing Made in Ghana products.”<\/div>\n
NaaSei Hopkins, the Chief Executive of Payne Payne and Hopkins Company Limited, commended the Management of Exim Bank for the platform to exhibit their products to stakeholders.<\/div>\n
He said the event would expose the products to the market and customers.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, April 26, GNA- Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister of Information, says Ghana is well positioned to reduce food insecurity and attain self-sufficiency. He said with the introduction of the Tuesday Market, the country would be in the best position to outsource a lot of its products from the farm gate. Mr Oppong Nkrumah said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1552,85,5359,10465,10466,10467],"class_list":["post-1068712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-food","tag-ghana","tag-nkrumah","tag-positioned","tag-productionoppong","tag-selfsufficient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}