The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, has assured that, there would be no famine irrespective of the recent drought in Northern Ghana.
The sector minister’s assurance comes after, farmers in the Northern Region are complaining about the change in climate, causing no rainfall in the region which has resulted in stunted crop growth.
Speaking in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Face to Face on Channel One TV, he asserted that, despite the crisis, the country will not experience drought.
“I don’t think there will be a 1982 [1983] event, I don’t think that there will be famine, I don’t think that there will be food shortages, none of that.
“I think maybe at the time that it happened, we didn’t have the predictive tools or the intelligence to able to deal with the situation. Some of which at the time were compounded by drought and fires which ravaged almost the whole country. We don’t have that situation on our hands now and we’re not going to get there,” Bryan Acheampong said.
The Abetifi legislator was optimistic that by the end of September and October, measures would be put in place and there would be a lot of food.
“All the things that we are talking about, except for the damage to the crops that has happened now, in terms of the impact on the markets will be more of the end of September and October, and we are putting in steps now to deal with it,” he assured
