“It’s not your responsibility to carry goods from farms to market” – Abu Sakara tells Agric Minister

Former Presidential Candidate for the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Michael Abu Sakara has said the Ministry of Food and Agriculture is not responsible for carrying produce from farms in the country to market centers.

Speaking on GhanaTonight on TV3 monitored by GhanaPlus.com on Wednesday, November 16, he said the ministry’s role is to make sure systems responsible for such rather works.

Has Buffer Stock Company failed completely? -Abu Sakara asks

He questioned what has become of the country’s National Food Buffer Stock Company Limited, a state agency cloth with the responsibility to ensure stability in demand and supply of locally food produce on the Ghanaian market.

Mr Abu Sakara said the Buffer Stock Company should be responsible for what the minister is doing now.

“So the question we are asking now is has the buffer stock failed to work completely that the Minister now has to go and carry the food himself”.

“The Buffer Stock is more or less under the Ministry of Agriculture as well but what we are saying is that if the system you put in place are not working then you are forced to intervene physically and if you are forced to intervene physically it means that the systems are not working and you are not responsible for carry goods from farms to the market,” he said.

“You are responsible for making sure the systems that do it work so that is the point I am making. So we have to be honest and say this is not a sustainable way of doing things, I don’t believe the minister himself believe that he can sustain this,” Mr Abu Sakara added.

Ministry of Agric introduce PFJ Market

Mr Abu Sakara was reacting to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s Planting for Food and Job(PFJ) Market introduced last week to mitigates the impact of the hikes in food prices in the country, Accra, most especially.

The programme which begun on Friday, November 11, 2022 at the premises of the ministry and subsequently extended to other part of the capital is serving the public with non perishable foods such as yam, rice and also plantain which is currently in season.

It is expected to continue until there are no more foods in farms across the country.

Source: GhanaPlus.com