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– –<\/span> The rising food inflation in Ghana\u00a0is gradually becoming a major concern in the country, Chief Operations Officer at Dalex Finance, Mr\u00a0Joe\u00a0Jackson has said. Speaking on the News at 10 on TV3 Monday May 16 in relation to the increasing inflation rate, he said \u201cOne of the things you have to realize is that when you listen to the\u00a0Ghana Statistical Service\u00a0(GSS) they will tell you that the highest inflation occurredd in the prices of food.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cThat is why people are worried or thinking we may be heading to a crisis because the price of food, when it is going so high hit most vulnerable in the society very hard. Contributing to a discussion on the impact of the ongoing geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine on food supply in Ghana, Mr Kareweh said\u00a0on TV3\u2019s New day show with Johnnie Hughes that;<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cAs we speak, the food you are eating was not produced in 2022. There will be hunger, already there is hunger and the hunger will be more because I don\u2019t foresee government getting money to support farmers to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is deliberate policy to reduce out put. When you refuse to invest what are you doing?\u201d He added.<\/p>\n He further said that Ghana does not have enough food available to feed the people for even one month without importing more food commodities.<\/p>\n \u201cThe reality is that a lot of food items are imported into the country therefore, when upheavals and other economic challenges occur in those countries, automatically they become Ghana\u2019s issues, Mr Kareweh added.<\/p>\n \u201cThe realty is that we do not have enough food in this country. The reality is that we import so much into this country. So if there is a problem in those country you import those problems\u201d. He disclosed.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – The rising food inflation in Ghana\u00a0is gradually becoming a major concern in the country, Chief Operations Officer at Dalex Finance, Mr\u00a0Joe\u00a0Jackson has said.In his view, the country is heading to a period where people will be forced to skip meals because they cannot afford to pay for the high prices.This, he said, would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1091626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[442,3431,695,1552,834,2158,2027],"class_list":["post-1091623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cost","tag-current","tag-fasting","tag-food","tag-ghanaians","tag-high","tag-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091623","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=1091623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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In his view, the country is heading to a period where people will be forced to skip meals because they cannot afford to pay for the high prices.
This, he said, would lead to a crisis.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe poor and vulnerable are going to be hit very hard and the fear is that we are going to a place where food prices are so high and people skipping meals because they can\u2019t afford it.\u201d
The General Secretary of the Ghana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU),\u00a0Mr Edward Kareweh,\u00a0has also said Ghanaians should prepare for hunger this year if immediate steps are not taken by the government to\u00a0invest in the agriculture sector\u00a0of the economy,
In his view, there is a deliberate attempt to reduce agriculture output in Ghana due to the low investments in the sector.<\/p>\n
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