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Ashant i Brong Ahafo Cent ral East ern Great er Accra Nort hern Upper East Upper West Volt a West ern DISTRICT RELATED News & Events Chief Executives Districts’ Contact Current Stories [ Search for News Stories ] MMDCEs New 2013 Some Ot her Headlines Districts, Capitals &... TAIN:District Assembly Re-Elects DCE Break Down Of MMDAs (AGAVE) SOUTH TONGU : Youth in agric EDUCATION:Gov’t Makes Provision Local Governance In G... funding up by 500% For First 50 Community SHSs More V SOCIAL: Teachers To Be Sacked After Government is to increase 10 Days Of Absence budgetary allocation f or the Youth KETU N: Pay Your Loans On Time - NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS In Agriculture programme by 500 per Farmers Told News & Events cent, raising the amount f rom GHc10 million in 2009 to GHc 60 million next HO: Community Support Needed To Agriculture year. Make GSFP Better Business The move is to encourage medium and TARKWA: Assembly Retains MCE Crime large scale food production KRACHI W: 4 Perished In Volta Lake Economy among the youth, especially in areas of Accident comparative advantage to triple food Education production within the next three years. KMA:Drivers Asked To Avoid Wrongful Parking Energy Rice plant It is also meant to cut down on the SOCIAL: Volta Lake Project Set To More V country’s foreign exchange rate Take Oﬀ and make the cedi much stronger. ADANSI N: Assembly Members

OTHER LINKS Vice President John Dramani Mahama announced this when he Endorse DCE inspected rice projects at Agave and Aveyime-Battor in the South 2010 Pop. & HC OBUASI: Prez Nominee Confirmed; Tongu and Central Tongu districts of the Volta Region. Assures More Dev’t Projects Photo Gallery At Agave, Mr Frademir Saccol, Managing Director of the Brazil Agro ABURA: Assembly Begins Work On Ghana @ A Glance Business Group, cultivators of the Agave Rice Farm, took the Vice 400 Estate Housing Project President round the company’s 200-hectare facility. You Must Read This BOLGA:CODAC Facilitates 145 LEAP He said there were efforts to increase production by 5,000 hectares Women As Councils Of Chiefs/Elders NSPS in three years. KWAHU E:Assembly Elects PM, Fails To Endorse DCE More V The Agave project began four months ago and the first produce will hit the Ghanaian market in January 2010. HOHOE:45.86km MiDA Roads Inaugurated RELATED WEBSITES At Aveyime-Battor, Mr Everett Anderson, Managing Director of SOCIAL: Ghana’s NHIS Is Promising – Commonfund Prairie Volta Limited, cultivators of the Aveyime Rice Project took Mr Dutch Delegation Electoral Commission ... Mahama round the facility, announcing that the company had already harvested 650 hectares out of the 800- hectare project and had so Birim S:Assembly Decides On DCE Ghana Stock Exchanges far Nominee Today replanted 400 hectares. Government Of Ghana SOCIAL: Govt Approves GHs 22 Inst. Of Loc. Gov. Mr Mahama said the country currently imported food to the tune of Million For Skills Development one billion dollars annually, a trend that the government was Investment Promotion ... BIRIM N:Assembly Confirms DCE determined to reverse. SOCIAL:Volta Region Lags In More V To this end "government is mapping out a strategy to encourage the Development-Afotey Agbo

production of soyabean, maize and other cereals that form the core NABDAM: Assembly/World Vision of staples enjoyed by the citizenry", the Vice President said. Drills More Boreholes For Residents He said government was also designing an initiative in poultry U MANYA K: Assembly Confirms DCE production, which it planned to role out soon, to ensure a reduction in Atiwa Fails To Endorse DCE Nominee the amount of poultry products the country imported. ATIWA:MP Calls On MMDCEs To Be "Our policy is to encourage import substitution by increasing the Humble In Their Work production of crops and livestock in areas of comparative advantage, to the country to cut down on foreign exchange rate," he STATEMENT: NDC Wishes Muslims Well said. On Ramadan SPORTS: Satellites Poised For France He said government was implementing a farm mechanisation concept Revenge by providing tractors at affordable rates, to groups and individuals to provide ploughing services to rural farmers at low costs to enhance TOLON: MP Funds Rehabilitation Of 3 their production. Boreholes ELLEMEBELE: District Benefit From Mr Mahama said government was also carrying through with its Age Village Project interventions to subsidize farm implements, equipment, fertilizers, seedlings among other things to farmers. A SENYA: Minister Tours Kasoa BIBIANI: Australian Gov’t Supports The Vice President said government’s interventions in the agricultural School With ICT Facilities sector coupled with the level of food production going on nationwide indicated that the country was on course to reducing her food imports drastically within the next three years.

He observed that the youth had not embraced agriculture as a means to earning livelihood and urged them to take to farming because it could make them have meaningful living.

Mr Saccol pleaded with government to help secure loans from the Agricultural Development Bank to assist his company to carry out its expansion drive.

Posted: 19-Oct

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