{"id":1245079,"date":"2022-11-06T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/minority-blames-high-food-prices-on-failed-planting-for-food-and-jobs-policy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T10:40:31","slug":"minority-blames-high-food-prices-on-failed-planting-for-food-and-jobs-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/minority-blames-high-food-prices-on-failed-planting-for-food-and-jobs-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority blames high food prices on &#8216;failed&#8217; Planting for Food and Jobs policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has said the failure of government\u2019s policies is largely to blame for the current high prices of food items.<\/p>\n<p>Food inflation is among the major contributors to Ghana\u2019s current decades-high inflation rate.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs programme was expected to make food items cheaper and readily available.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"969\" height=\"545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Dr-Seidu-Jassaw.jpg\" alt=\"Minority blames high food prices on 'failed' Planting for Food and Jobs policy\" class=\"wp-image-10032203790 lazy\"  data- title=\"Minority blames high food prices on 'failed' Planting for Food and Jobs policy\"\/><figcaption>Dr Seidu Jassaw is a deputy Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Food and Agriculture Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Food and Agriculture Committee, Dr Seidu Jassaw, says the programme has failed to achieve the desired result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot say Planting for Food and Jobs is succeeding when you do not see the food when the logistics for allocating the food and shifting it from its production centres to where it is actually needed have not been achieved. What Planting for Food and Jobs does is to increase the usage of fertiliser in production.<\/p>\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\/1377460597&#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>\u201cGhanaians are living through price hikes day in and day out to the point that it is unbearable. So, that increased production that we\u2019ve discussed, where has the produce gone to? I can tell you we have not managed the logistics of handling the food well and we have the structural policy wrongly,\u201d he told JoyNews\u2019 Parliamentary Correspondent, Kwaku Asante.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Dr Seidu Jassaw claimed the average farmer is worse off now and may be forced to take their yields outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the national food buffer stock company has been crippled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would notice that the National Food Buffer Stock has been reduced to buying food items and supplying school feeding. Buffer Stock and human resources there is worth more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>\u201cThis minister has done nothing on Buffer Stock. In fact, he\u2019s stifled Buffer Stock of resources. You are producing the food, you don\u2019t buy it. Farmers are rational people so they sell it where the market is available\u2026 and under our arrangements as ECOWAS and so on you cannot stop people from moving goods and services,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Wa East Member of Parliament said the Agric Minister\u2019s response to the soaring food prices is simply not workable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has said the failure of government\u2019s policies is largely to blame for the current high prices of food items. Food inflation is among the major contributors to Ghana\u2019s current decades-high inflation rate. The government\u2019s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs programme was expected to make food items cheaper and readily available. 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