{"id":398680,"date":"2018-02-05T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=398680"},"modified":"2018-02-05T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:27:01","slug":"we-will-employ-5m-people-750000-too-small-agric-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/we-will-employ-5m-people-750000-too-small-agric-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"We will employ 5m people; 750,000 too small &#8211; Agric Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie, has said the government&#8217;s aim is to create over five million jobs for Ghanaians under the \u201cPlanting for Food and Jobs\u201d programme in the long-term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c750,000 [jobs] is nothing, I want to employ five million people not 750, 000,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie&#8217;s claims that they&#8217;ve created 745,000 \u201cunofficial\u201d jobs under the programme across the country,\u00a0have been disputed by critics who say these ventures should be classified as \u201cactivities and not jobs\u201d as they are not sustainable for the entire year.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Zwy9nq3VUT4NbvxcCQxjbFTkxOhdfGOJ&#8221;]\u201c\u2026 The Planting for Food and Jobs campaign has absorbed this [rural] labour to the extent that we targeted 750,000 rural labour, and we were able to generate 745,000 jobs, and these jobs are unofficial jobs. They are not pensionable, they are not tax deductible so you cannot actually measure it like those in the formal sector where you are registered, you are paid a wage, you have to pay tax and so on, and therefore, it is very easy to monitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole idea is to generate enough jobs in our rural areas so that they would have something to do for them to stay, so that the Kayayei [Head porters] can go back to Tamale, Bolga and all those places to reach rice farmers,\u201d the Minister said at a news conference last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>745,000 \u2018Planting for Food\u2019 jobs are full-time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Oduro, has also defended the figures, saying they are full-time employment ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the<strong>\u00a0Citi Breakfast Show\u00a0<\/strong>on Monday, Mr. Oduro said many of those employed under the programme help with a number of farming activities including the tilling of lands and the harvesting of crops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026This is [a] full-time job. You start from land preparation until harvesting\u2026These are not jobs that you go for interviews,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Akoto Afriyie, has said the government&#8217;s aim is to create over five million jobs for Ghanaians under the \u201cPlanting for Food and Jobs\u201d programme in the long-term. \u201c750,000 [jobs] is nothing, I want to employ five million people not 750, 000,\u201d he said. 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