The Planting for Food and Jobs program of the government has been criticized by the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana as being unsustainable.

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Charles Nyaaba, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana's Head of Programs and Advocacy, claims that for farmers to fully benefit from the policy, the government must evaluate it.

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On Monday, October 24, 2022, he said in a Citi News interview that given the economic difficulties, it was time for the government to increase its agriculture spending.

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He said, “Per our conversations with the policymakers in the Ministries, it suggests that the Planting for Food and Jobs is not sustainable, the budget does not support that. So it has to be reviewed in a way that the Ministry of Finance does not pump more money into it. We do not think it is the way to go.”

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“We think there could have been a better way of going about it. We could have considered better ways of improving the implementation of the programme. This is the time we need to invest in the Agricultural sector,” he stated.

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Planting for Food and Jobs is a flagship agricultural campaign of government with five implementation modules.

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The first module PFJ (Crops) aims to promote food security and immediate availability of selected food crops on the market and also provide jobs.

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