29th August 2023 10:03:00 AM
2 mins readPresident Akufo-Addo has given assurance that the second phase of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative will generate an annual average of 210,000 new jobs directly related to farming.Furthermore, the President noted that these new jobs will not only be limited to farming but will also encompass various positions within the agricultural value chains.
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President Akufo-Addo made this announcement during the launch of the second phase of the Planting for Food and Jobs program in Tamale on Monday, August 28. He emphasized that this upcoming phase of the program is aimed at enhancing food security and creating employment opportunities.“The impact of the Programme is expected to be in the area of job creation, with some one-point-two million (1.2 million) farmers to be enrolled in the first year.
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In the next four (4) years, the Programme is destined to record an annual average of two hundred and ten thousand (210,000) new farm-related jobs," the president said.This will not encompass other jobs along the agricultural value chains, which are projected to average around four hundred and twenty thousand annually during the same period, President Akufo-Addo confirmed.
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He further highlighted that the second phase of the Program is also aimed at enhancing service delivery to optimize its effects.“The second phase, by design, takes a holistic view and places greater emphasis on value chain approaches by focusing on strengthening linkages between actors along eleven selected agricultural commodity value chains broadly categorised into grains, roots and tuber, vegetables and poultry.
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Phase Two of the Programme also seeks to improve service delivery to maximise impact, substitutes direct input subsidy with smart agricultural financial support in the form of comprehensive input credit, with provision for in-kind payment,” the President indicated.On April 19, 2017, President Akufo-Addo inaugurated the inaugural "Planting for Food and Jobs" program in Goaso, situated in the Ahafo region.
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This initiative marked a pivotal step by the government towards the modernization of agriculture, the enhancement of production efficiency, and the attainment of both food security and increased profitability for farmers.The primary goal was to substantially boost agricultural productivity while concurrently pursuing a value-addition approach, with a focus on accelerating agro-processing and establishing new, stable
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