Thursday, 21 July 2022

Food for thought: To ensure food security should we not convert Ghana's agricultural sector to organic food production?

One hopes that the current global supply chain challenges, for supplies of wheat and fertilisers, caused mainly by Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Russia and Ukraine both being major fertiliser and wheat  producers), will force our nation's hard-of-hearing ruling-elites, to finally wake up - and understand, clearly, the reason why we must be self sufficient, in the production of organic agricultural inputs, to ensure year-round food security.


In light of of the ongoing global shortages of wheat and fertilisers, it is now obvious that it is in our own national-self-interest (if we are to guarantee year-round food security), that a wise and aspirational African people, like Ghanaians, must quickly begin the process of converting all farming in Ghana, to produce food organically.


To make that highly desirable goal, a reality, as soon as practicable, the Ghana Import Export Bank, ought to be encouraged by today's  government-of-the-day (which says it sees the private sector, as the engine of growth, for our national economy), to fund the construction of three state-of-the-art giga-factories, in Tema, Kumasi and Tamale, to produce Apostle Kojo Sarfo Kantanka's innovative organic growth-medium, as well as his incredibly effective organic pesticides, to help boost Ghanaian agriculture.


In so doing, we will also help boost the immune systems of all Ghanaians, who will, at long last, have access to cheap organic agricultural produce, daily - just like their ancestors ate, regularly:  before the first Europeans stepped on our shores, in the 15th Century, and began laying the foundation for their eventual occupation of our nation, as colonialists. A word to the wise...


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