Here Is Akufo-Addo’s 8-Point Agric Agenda To Revamp Ghana’s Economy
In the quest to get the economy back on track, the government is rolling out significant incentives to drive interest in commercial agriculture.
Dubbed the Novel Agricultural Focus Economic Enclave, the government has designated suitable lands fitted with power supply, irrigation, warehousing, and other inputs to enable stress-free farming nationwide.
The government has tasked the Millennium Development Authority(MDA) to implement the agenda to address bureaucracy.
The President, Nana Addo-Danquah Akufo-Addo, provided the fine details on the Novel Agricultural Focus Economic Enclave.
According to him, under the Novel EEP, “government is facilitating the availability of suitable and well-prepared land fitted with farm roads, power supply, irrigated water, some farming equipment and much-needed infrastructure for trainee farmers’ accommodation, grain processing import and equipment storage and warehousing.”
Here are the 8-point agenda highlighted by President Akufo-Addo:
- Supporting commercial farming and attracting educated youth into commercial farming
- Building the country’s life manufacturing sector
- Developing engineering machine tools in ICT digital economy industry
- Fast-tracking digitisation
- Developing Ghana’s Housing and Construction Industry
- Establishing Ghana’s regional hub
- Reviewing optimising implementation of the government’s flagship and key programmes
- Creating jobs for young people and expanding opportunities to the vulnerable in society, including physically challenged persons