A fact that has continuously been ignored in our nation is the strategic place of agriculture in our collective desire for economic growth and employment generation. Our govt goal must be to agriculture the key driver of the economy and the source of new job for our youths.
Our govt must empower the existing farmers, encourage new generation of farmers and support commercial agriculture by creating better access to land, farm inputs and machineries to achieve these,our government must therefore:
* Upgrade existing farm settlements and establish new and purpose built farm estate with all necessary social amenities.
* Must help farmer massively through provision of tools for mechanized farming.
* Must improve the quality and quantity of cocoa and other cash crops through provision of improved seedlings and agro-chemical.
* Must support farmers to attain increase in food production and better strorage.
* Must provide assistance to farmers in exploiting profitable markets and market opportunities for their products.
* Must develop extensive farming in palm trees to strengthen existing ones and create fully integrated oil palm trees and processing industry.
* They must promote all season farming through irrigation.
* They must ensure the availability agricultural extension workers to guide our farmers, and and timely provision of ferterlizers,chemicals and improved seedlings to our farmers at reasonable prices.
* They must open up rural areas to enable farmers get their produce to town.
* They must regenerate our forestry to restore its lost glory and economic viability.
RPI.............Mission Rekindled.
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