{"id":1268172,"date":"2022-12-20T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/john-dumelo-starts-rice-milling-farm-in-guan-district-video\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:50:53","slug":"john-dumelo-starts-rice-milling-farm-in-guan-district-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/john-dumelo-starts-rice-milling-farm-in-guan-district-video\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dumelo starts rice milling farm in Guan District [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-12-20-at-09.43.33_1680x882-1024x538.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Actor cum politician, John Dumelo, is steadily finding his feet in the agricultural sector as he has started a rice milling farm in the Guan District of the Oti Region.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dumelo has taken to social media to give Ghanaians a glimpse of his work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>This comes a few weeks after he launched <em>operation feed yourself<\/em>, urging Ghanaians to patronise agriculture by growing foodstuffs in their backyard.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>In the Tiktok video which has warmed many hearts, Mr Dumelo was spotted on the milling machine, processing the rice with the help of a few young men. <\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Dumelo launches \u2018Operation Feed Ourselves\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Check out John Dumelo\u2019s ginger paste to hit the market soon [Photos]<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@johndumelo1\/video\/7176212722043047173\" data-video-id=\"7176212722043047173\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\">\n<section> @johndumelo1 <\/p>\n<p>Milling rice!!! <\/p>\n<p> \u266c Country side \u2013 Sarkodie <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2020 National Democratic Congress Parliamentary Candidate for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency has acres of farms in various parts of Ghana where he cultivates yam, ginger and other crops.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2022, he announced he is establishing a ginger processing factory in the Oti Region which has currently birthed his Melo Foods Organic Ginger Paste.<\/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=\"5JWZMalyCW8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Difficult Christmas: Traders at Kpandai lament high food prices (20-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JWZMalyCW8?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>Actor cum politician, John Dumelo, is steadily finding his feet in the agricultural sector as he has started a rice milling farm in the Guan District of the Oti Region. Mr Dumelo has taken to social media to give Ghanaians a glimpse of his work in progress. This comes a few weeks after he launched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268172","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=1268172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}