{"id":772016,"date":"2022-01-29T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/farmers-call-on-otumfour-to-intervene-on-their-behalf-as-one-govt-policy-killing-their-industry\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T16:25:53","slug":"farmers-call-on-otumfour-to-intervene-on-their-behalf-as-one-govt-policy-killing-their-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/farmers-call-on-otumfour-to-intervene-on-their-behalf-as-one-govt-policy-killing-their-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Call On Otumfour To Intervene On Their Behalf As One Gov&#8217;t Policy Killing Their Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5f77837f0a8a4b548e780ce47f2da35b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana(PFAG) has called on Otumfuo for his intervention on the reversal of the Benchmark Discount Value by government giving the reason as hindering the growth of the local industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, not all government policies are worth implementing expecially in times like this where things are extremely very difficult to come by. They therefore brought their issue, since Otumfour Osei Tutu II have massive say in government, should use his authority to call on to government to hear their worries.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director for PFAG, Dr Kwowe Nyaaba during their call sought for\u00a0Otumfuo\u2019s presence to grace their 2022 Annual General Meeting scheduled for March 25 at the TUCC Conference Hall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4921891684264bc3885731c6b7d26c3e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Otumfuo assuring them to have meetings with the government to find solutions to the issues raised also noted\u00a0the need for a deliberate policy to regulate farming and its related issues because farmers are great contributors towards Ghana\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Newsflash (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nKwowe Nyaaba<br \/>\nOsei Tutu II<br \/>\nOtumfuo<br \/>\nPFAG<br \/>\nPeasant Farmers Association of Ghana(<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana(PFAG) has called on Otumfuo for his intervention on the reversal of the Benchmark Discount Value by government giving the reason as hindering the growth of the local industry. According to them, not all government policies are worth implementing expecially in times like this where things are extremely very difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772016","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=772016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}