Deputy Minister for Agriculture commends Ghana Rice Project

Deputy Agriculture Minister Yaw Frimpong Addo says AGRA’s rice and cassava consortia projects have been key to the success of the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) Program. Speaking at the close-out and learning event for phase one of the KFW-AGRA program in Accra, he said: “The success of PFJ can’t be mentioned without mentioning these projects in Ghana.” The Public-Private Partnership for Competitive and Inclusive Rice Value Chain Development Project and the Ghana Cassava Industrialisation Project which run from 2018 to 2022 supported the implementation of 2 consortia grants to support smallholder farmers growing rice and cassava. The partners also provided an additional grant to mitigate the secondary effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on smallholder farmers in Ghana. In this partnership, AGRA provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Ministry of Trade and Industry to develop appropriate public-private partnership models to ...