MORE than 20,000 smallholder farmers are set to benefit from an $18.8 million African Development Bank (AfDB) grant to expand rice production and strengthen Ghana’s rice value chain.
The grant, under the Regional West African Resilient Rice Value Chains (REWARD) Project, is expected to increase local rice production, improve farmers’ incomes and reduce the country’s dependence on rice imports.
Addressing a news conference in Accra yesterday, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Mr Eric Opoku, said the intervention formed part of the government’s efforts to achieve rice self-sufficiency by 2028, with a target of producing 3.31 million metric tonnes of rice. Read More
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