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The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has assured that the Ghana Cares Obatampa project will create employment opportunities for the country\u2019s youth as their services are engaged in an all-year-round agriculture farming project.<\/p>\n
The minister said the aim of the project is to bring together Ghanaians towards a common profitable objective, especially towards economic recovery.<\/p>\n
The Ghana Cares Obatampa program outlined in the 2022-2023 budget is an initiative to bridge the food supply gap, especially rice and vegetables while reducing the risk associated with unemployment.<\/p>\n
The project has since commenced within the Tsopoli and Asutuare enclave where the government intends to embark on a 10,000-acre rice and vegetable farming to feed the citizenry.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> on the sidelines of the launch of the initiative, Mr Ofori-Atta indicated that the project engages National Service personnel in order to develop the entrepreneurial skills of the youth.<\/p>\n \u201cSo this really is the dawn of something really great for us as a people. The budget this year was titled \u2018Nkabom\u2019 budget, so this is exemplifying the type of unity and working together that we need,\u201d Mr Ofori-Atta said.<\/p>\n The Chief of Staff, Frema Osei-Opare, commended the program and assured the Finance Ministry of the government\u2019s utmost support to ensure the project succeeds to make it sustainable to generate income for the teaming youth.<\/p>\n The Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul on his part noted that the initiative must be replicated in all 16 regions in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a good project and if we can replicate this across the country then that will be the game changer. So this is a good start, and we must continue with this,\u201d Mr Nitiwul said.<\/p>\n He further stated that the military has been deployed to the project to coordinate affairs in order to ensure the project is well managed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has assured that the Ghana Cares Obatampa project will create employment opportunities for the country\u2019s youth as their services are engaged in an all-year-round agriculture farming project. The minister said the aim of the project is to bring together Ghanaians towards a common profitable objective, especially towards economic recovery. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263401","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=1263401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}