Ghanaians should brace for hunger this year if the government does not take prompt steps to invest in the agriculture sector, according to Mr Edward Kareweh, General Secretary of the Ghana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU).
According to him, there is a purposeful endeavor in Ghana to limit agricultural output due to inadequate investment in the sector.
“As we speak, the food you are consuming was not produced in 2022,” Mr Kareweh stated on TV3’s New day show with Johnnie Hughes on Monday, May 16. There will be hunger; there is already hunger, and there will be more since I do not see the government receiving funds to assist farmers in producing.”
“There is a conscious policy to restrict output,” he continued. What are you doing when you refuse to invest?”
He went on to say that Ghana does not have enough food to serve its people for even one month without importing extra food.
Because many food goods are imported into Ghana, when upheavals and other economic concerns arise in those countries, they automatically become Ghana’s problems, Mr Kareweh explained.
“The reality is that this country does not have enough food.” In actuality, we import a great deal into this country. So if there’s a problem in those countries, you import it,” he explained.
