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Rice Farmer Shares The Benefit Of PFJ On Her Trade (Video)

Rice Farmer Shares The Benefit Of PFJ On Her Trade (Video)

A rice farmer, Hawa Seidu under the flagship initiative Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) shares with us how the programme has boosted her rice productivity and improved her standard of living.   She captured in a video stating that through the PFJ programme, government has subsidized seeds and fertilizers for farmers.   “Now we do multiple planting seasons and it is helping us. I can proudly say, I harvested 500 bags this season and I have 30 acres of rice farm and a power tiller. I also have a tricycle which I use to transport my harvest home at times I use trucks too”, Hawa Seidu said.  She also thanked…
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I Have Two Motor Tricycles, Plot Of Land Thanks To PFJ- 32 Year Old Rahinatu Karim

I Have Two Motor Tricycles, Plot Of Land Thanks To PFJ- 32 Year Old Rahinatu Karim

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,…
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