Farmers expect 10% budget allocation to agriculture next year in Ghana

Published 2021년 11월 2일

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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is advocating for a minimum 10% allocation in the 2022 national budget for the agriculture sector. This recommendation is based on the sector's resilience during the pandemic, which has created over five million jobs and maintained production despite challenges faced by other sectors. The PFAG criticizes the government's partial implementation of agricultural policies, which has hindered sector growth and resulted in Ghana's performance lagging behind countries like Mali, Rwanda, and Morocco. The association also highlights the need for sufficient funding for fertilizer subsidies to support farmers.

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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) is anticipating a minimum 10 per cent budgetary allocation to the agriculture sector in the 2022 budget. PFAG said its expectation is justified by the sector's resilience during the pandemic against other sectors of the economy. "COVID-19 has highly impacted many sectors, but agriculture was somehow resistant as farmers have been able to produce some amount of food and created jobs for more than five million people in the value chain," PFAG's Head of Programmes and Advocacy, Dr Charles Nyaaba, told the B&FT. Budgetary allocation to the sector in the 2021 budget was less than five per cent, which PFAG describes as woefully inadequate to implement the many policies which the government envisaged. Regional agriculture performance The government's partial implementation of agricultural policies, Dr Nyaaba said, is costing Ghana to the extent that countries including Mali, Rwanda, and Morocco are performing better in the ...

Source: Ghanaweb