07
Mar
The Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has initiated efforts to address challenges in some key sub-sectors in the agricultural industry, as part of plans to boost food security and reduce the weight of food imports on the cedi and economy at large. The bank is currently engaging stakeholders to identify potential challenges and engender solutions to address them. The engagements are focused on the poultry, rice and maize as well as soyabeans value chains. The average annual import bill for poultry and rice alone constitutes about US$700million and US$1billion, respectively. Speaking to the media in Accra after a stakeholder engagement, the…