Speaking to journalists at the B-Bovid agricultural facility in the Western Region, the head of the Israeli delegation said Ghana needs to take serious measures to improve agriculture and reverse the annual import of rice, coupled with high importation of poultry products of up to billion dollars.
The ambassador, describing the situation as "crazy", suggested the adoption of mechanized farming to cut down manpower and produce higher yield.
He said Israel, with its limited land area and scarcity of water, has less than 4% of its total population doing agriculture, yet the country is a food exporter due to its implementation of modern farming methods.
The
Israeli Ambassador’s visit to B-BOVID’s site, comes barely few weeks after the
US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Peter Jackson, visited the site and promised to
engage Ghana’s Ministry of Agriculture in promoting the company’s agric module.
B-BOVID,
is a Ghanaian agricultural business based in Pretsea in the Ahanta West
District of the Western Region, which promotes sound agricultural practices and
ecological farming, and offers training to farmers on variety of improved
agricultural methods.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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