President Akufo-Addo is expected to engage members of the national house of chiefs to come to an understanding in making available lands to widen government’s Planting for Food and Jobs Phase II program.
“Recognized as customary owners of lands in the in Ghana, the release of land by our revered Chiefs to their subjects participating in the Planting for Food and Jobs Phase II will significantly address the challenge of access to land for agricultural production”, a statement from the ministry of Information indicated.
Launching the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) Phase II on Monday August 28, President Akufo-Addo noted that the PFJ II will consolidate the gains made so far under the first phase.
He added that, the first phase launched in 2017 benefited over 2.7 million farmers and other value chain actors across the country under five broad modules: food crops; tree crops, also known as Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD); horticulture; livestock sector, known as Rearing for Food and Jobs; and mechanisation, under which the government sought to reduce drudgery in farming, partly through the establishment of Agriculture Mechanization Centres throughout the country.
Below is the statement
