SCOTTSBLUFF — While we bow our heads and pray around a table piled high with food, surrounded with family and friends, we often take pause to reflect on the things we are thankful for.
The municipal chief executive officer Hon. Evelyn Naa Adjeley Twum-Gyamrah has said the increasing rate at which farmlands has been taken over by estate developers poses a threat to food security in the country.
She said this at the 33rd farmers day celebration held at Teshie in the Ledzokuku Krowor Muncipal District in Accra. “The allocation of national budget to Agric sector is inadequate. This, coupled with rapid population growth and increasing unemployment poses a challenge to us in achieving sustainable food security and development. Increasing rate at which farm lands are being lost to estate developers poses a great challenge to the food security in the family.” She said. “
One thought might slip everyone’s mind, however, we often take for granted the lands encroached upon by the estate developers which is responsible for growing food for our feast. Land as is said is a fixed commodity, therefore, the more it is used for building the more its usage for farming decreases.
One would realize that most of the farm lands have been taken by the estate developers posing threat to food security in the country. Most farm lands in areas like Kwahu Hills, Shai Hills and other suburbs in Accra-Ghana have been developed by these estate developers. Not only had these areas only been affected by these developers but almost all the regions across the country.
She further noted that the unavailability of farmlands due to the high population rate would put a lot of pressure on the scares food available in the country.
REF: SPIKE JORDAN Ag Editor sjordan@starherald.com Nov 22, 2017
