"Show us a unique policy that you have put in place to improve Agric" – Akufo-Addo dares NDC

General News of Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-07-23

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo has asked the main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to show any policies implemented during its mandate to improve agricultural productivity.

During a visit to Daboase, capital of Wbada East District, as part of her two-day tour in the West region, President Nana Addo claimed that the NDC's government has no 39; had failed to maintain the gains obtained by the administration of former President Kufour in cocoa production. from other areas of agriculture in the country.

"I want to hear what they will say to this challenge. We challenge them to tell us what they did to boost agricultural production, cocoa production in Ghana, "he ventured.

He hastens to add: "I can tell you the answer in advance: zero, zero, that's the answer!"

The president's remarks follow a rebuttal by COCOBOD chief executive Joseph Boahene Aidoo to a recent statement by former president Mahama during his tour of the North West region that the government NDC offered a better alternative for improving cocoa production. the life of farmers, as the government led by Nana Addo.

Mr Boahene Aidoo told durbar cocoa producers that cocoa production had declined during the NDC's mandate despite its legacy of a rather booming cocoa sector.

"President Kuffour introduced cocoa mbad spraying, Hi-Tech cocoa, cocoa-based fertilizers … it was subsidized. Late, Professor Mills continued the subsidized fertilizer program, but Mahama chose to discontinue it and made it free. Even with this, we had only recorded a cocoa production of 740,000 tons, down from the record high of one million reached at the beginning of the prof. Mills. This badessment is even the result of Kufour's interventions, "he said.

Mr Boahene added that Ivory Coast had hit a record 1.8 million tonnes of cocoa, compared with 1.1 million tonnes just when Mahama set up a fertilizer program free.