Many more Ghanaians across the length and breadth of the country continue to narrate success stories of how the Government’s flagship Planting for Food and Jobs programme, initiated by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in 2017, has had socio-economic impact on their lives.
The latest to tell her story is 32 year old Rahinatu Karim, a rice farmer at Tepa in the Ahafo Ano North Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
Rahinatu Karim says she enrolled onto the Planting for Food and Jobs programme in 2017, after being infomed by the Municipal Directorate of Agriculture.
The rest, according to her, is a sweet story.
“I started rice farming with my husband; we were harvesting just two and half bags per acre. The business was not economically viable so my husband, somewhere along the line abandoned it, leaving me alone to fend for myself and the kids”
However, the destiny of the 32 year old was to change some years after with the advent of the Planting for Food and Jobs initiative.
“When I heard about the Government’s programme supporting farmers with seeds and fertilizers, I quickly enrolled and got support from the Municipal Agric Office. Today, I am able to harvest as much as 17 bags” She narrated.
Owing to this, Rahinatu said she managed to buy a motor tricycle for husband in the first year, bought one for myself and have already secured a full plot to start building.
Expressing gratitude to the Government for the PFJ initiative, Rahinatu in a recorded interview, urged Ghanaians to embrace the programme and avoid unnecessary politicking.
“I can say emphatically that the PFJ programme is one of the best things to happen to me, I am not playing politics because I have experienced it and I am very grateful to the Government ”
Rahinatu is just one of millions of Ghanaians benefitting from the laudable initiative which has seen a revival of the once dormant food and agricultural sector.
