The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna, has defended government\u2019s management of the agricultural sector saying that the many interventions put in place to revamp the sector are yet to bear fruits.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Viasat One’s ‘The Ghana Report’, Alhaji \u00a0Limuna posited that \u201c even if agriculture is dying, and \u00a0it’s not dead, then it can be revived.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”EOUjAuxW2KgGgjnaHD1F0ew2QcA67Xc2″]Government has come under intense criticisms for supervising the declining growth of \u00a0the sector.<\/p>\n
Although the Agriculture Minister admitted that\u201cthe contribution of agric to GDP has slumped from 39% on average, between 2002 and 2008 to 19%\u201d, he assured that government policies in that sector will soon deliver results that will transform agriculture in the country.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cagric is in a transition. We\u2019ve gotten to a point where it is normal in development for agric to behave the way it is behaving, but it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s the best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alhaji \u00a0Limuna added that, there is the need for refocusing, modernization and other innovations to be brought on board in order to boost the sector.<\/p>\n
Gov\u2019t\u2019s commitment to agric only rhetoric \u2013 Afriyie Akoto\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n