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Company News of Monday, April 22, 2019
Source: Samuel Akapule
2019-04-22
Ghanaians were encouraged to sponsor locally produced foods
Ms. Aniyinne Finela Asoke, Chief Executive Officer of Asofra Plus, an NGO active in the Upper East region, urged the government to urgently launch a policy to promote the consumption of indigenous foods from the region. Ghana.
Addressing the Ghanaian Times in an interview Saturday, the CEO pointed out that the many government interventions in the fields of planting for food and employment, district policies, One Factory and One Village One Dam would receive a major boost when Ghanaians are encouraged. consume locally produced staples in Ghana.
She mentioned some staple foods made locally from rice, early and late millet, guinea corn, plantain, cbadava, among others in Ghana, which should be promoted.
She said promoting Ghana's indigenous food consumption would help improve the nutritional status of the Ghanaian population, especially women and children.
Ms. Asoke said she is concerned about the amount of money used by the country for the importation of products such as rice and poultry meat and stressed the need for the government to adopt policies. pragmatic and collaborate with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Arts and Creative Arts and the hotel. industries to promote the agenda.
The CEO also called on the government to ensure that the Ghana Education Service takes steps to ensure that tertiary, technical and vocational schools offering catering courses treat traditional cooking and native Ghanaian food in their programs. studies.
She said many of the diseases recorded in Ghana could have been eliminated if Ghanaians were encouraged to consume their own locally produced foods.
The CEO, who mentioned the school feeding program, high schools and prisons as part of some of the hunger to promote the consumption of local Ghanaian dishes, said his organization, a registered NGO, had trained 40 caterers in the preparation of dishes. premises at the request of the institutions. in the five northern regions.
She stated that the 40 trained caterers had been selected to be health officials and able to prepare any local dish in Ghana for any organization and had called other organizations to badociate. to his outfit to help promote the consumption of Ghanaian dishes.
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