{"id":1221349,"date":"2022-10-11T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/food-price-hikes-we-saw-this-coming-but-agric-minister-denied-it-pfag\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T12:48:04","slug":"food-price-hikes-we-saw-this-coming-but-agric-minister-denied-it-pfag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/food-price-hikes-we-saw-this-coming-but-agric-minister-denied-it-pfag\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Price Hikes: We saw this coming but Agric Minister denied it &#8211; PFAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Agric-Minister-Afriyie-Akoto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Agric-Minister-Afriyie-Akoto.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Agric-Minister-Afriyie-Akoto.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Agric-Minister-Afriyie-Akoto\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Agric Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Executive Director of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Dr Charles Nyaaba, says the current high prices of food is a situation they predicted in 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, however, rubbished the predictions, indicating that Ghana had enough yields as a result of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) and other programmes introduced by government in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, October 10, the World Bank ranked Ghana highest in sub-Saharan Africa with regard to high food prices in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the October 2022 Africa Pulse Report, food prices in Ghana have since January 1 gone up by 122 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the year, the report says, food prices have increased sharply in many countries, largely due to the Russian\/Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Food Price Index in Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana has recorded very sharp prices in food.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the report on <strong>TV3<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Midday Live <\/em>on Tuesday, October 11, Dr Nyaabah said if quick measures are not put in place by the government, the situation will be worse.<\/p>\n<p>He advocated that Ghanaian farmers must be incentivised to cultivate domestic crops to lessen the dependency on food importation.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the government should concentrate on massive irrigation projects to ensure all-year-round agriculture, and not the \u2018One Village, One Dam\u2019 kind of irrigation projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: 3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agric Minister The Executive Director of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Dr Charles Nyaaba, says the current high prices of food is a situation they predicted in 2021. He said the Minister of Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, however, rubbished the predictions, indicating that Ghana had enough yields as a result of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[974,2720,11843,1552,6018,1223,3738,169],"class_list":["post-1221349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-agric","tag-coming","tag-denied","tag-food","tag-hikes","tag-minister","tag-pfag","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221349","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=1221349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}