After spending billions of cedis over 6 years, where is the food and jobs?
That is the question being posed to the President Akufo-Addo led government in the wake of the launch of Phase 2 of the Planting for Food and Jobs program.
Th phase 2 was launched after the Nana Akufo-Addo government concluded that the phase 1 was largely successful and the phase 2 was intended to build on the gains made from the phase 1.
The two major objectives of phase 1 of the program were to ensure immediate and adequate availability of selected food commodities and provide job opportunities for teeming unemployed youth in agriculture and allied sectors.
The third objective was for phase 1 of the program to serve as food imports substitution.
Six years after setting out to achieve these objectives through the Planting for Food and Jobs program, General Secretary of the General Agriculure Workers Union Edward Kareweh says the jobs and food are no where to be found.
Speaking to Sena Nombo on the Gold Morning Conversation on Radio Gold, Edward Kareweh wondered how a policy intended to benefit the farmer is successful for only the implementors in government and not the beneficiary farmers.
Mr. Kareweh is also questioning the link between phase 1 and phase 2 of the Planting for Food and Jobs program.
Speaking on the same issue on Radio Gold GMC, Deputy Ranking Member on the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs committee Dr. Godfred Seidu Jasaw said the phase 1 of the Planting for Food and Jobs program failed.
He is of the opinion that the phase 2 that President Akufo-Addo launched was a vastly d
