{"id":1156176,"date":"2022-07-22T15:35:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/im-not-sure-people-sleep-on-empty-stomach-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:35:27","slug":"im-not-sure-people-sleep-on-empty-stomach-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/im-not-sure-people-sleep-on-empty-stomach-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not sure people sleep on empty stomach in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FYM0H6YXwAQ5Wa9-Copy-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto\" title=\"Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1309781371&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has rubbished media reports that there is hunger in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>To him, although foodstuffs have been expensive, Ghana is not the only country as it is a global phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not true that there is hunger in this country. Of course, when you go to England, there are people sitting by the roads who don\u2019t have food to eat, the same applies to Los Angeles and some countries and you have voluntary organisations feeding them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0am not sure you will find people here in Ghana sleeping with hunger, at least people eat and that doesn\u2019t mean there is no food, there is but things have been expensive and it\u2019s the same in other countries,\u201d he said in an interview on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen show <\/strong>Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>According to Dr Akoto, Ghana is currently standing firm in food sufficiency despite Covid-19 shocks due to the planting for food and jobs policy.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to appreciate the contribution of the planting for food and jobs policy to the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has done us more good. Planting for food and jobs is best agric policy ever. It has given Ghana food autonomy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"iIoUyUq2NTw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jospong Father\u2019s Funeral: Dr. Agyepong invites Akufo-Addo, Bawumia and Kufuor (21-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iIoUyUq2NTw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has rubbished media reports that there is hunger in Ghana. To him, although foodstuffs have been expensive, Ghana is not the only country as it is a global phenomenon. \u201cIt is not true that there is hunger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1156178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[4167,85,345,1406,5126],"class_list":["post-1156176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-empty","tag-ghana","tag-people","tag-sleep","tag-stomach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156176","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=1156176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}