WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME SUPPORTS GHANA'S FOOD PRODUCTION

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The World Food Programme has provided a 300 metric ton capacity warehouse at Ejura in the Ashanti region, to serve farmer-based organizations and other actors along the maize value chain. 

This means participating farmer-based organizations will no longer have to sell their maize immediately especially during bumper season for want of storage space. 

The warehouse was constructed by the World Food Programme in collaboration with the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipal Assembly and Ejura Traditional Authority. 

The project is a testament to World Food Programme’s capacity in warehousing, food supply chains and logistics, with the capacity to help position Ghana as a competitive and major player in the grain industry in West Africa. 

The warehouse has been fitted with an electric platform weighing scale, 50 kilogramme standard weight, wiki bag stitching machine, sowing thread, rodent bait boxes, a grain moisture content metre and other basic equipment.

 The facility will allow farmers to dry, clean and sort their grain. While the warehouse is owned by the coalition of 17 farmer-based organizations, three independent yet complimentary entities will be responsible for ensuring its efficient management to optimize the use of this agricultural market facility. 

At a durbar preceding the formal inauguration of the warehouse at Ejura, members of the management board, an operational team and an audit committee were introduced to the Ejura community and subsequently inaugurated. 

The Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipal Chief Executive, Salisu Bamba emphasized the major role the Municipality is playing in Ghana’s sustainable food sector, as one of the country’s main maize production and trading hubs. 

The World Food Programme Country Representative, Madam Rukia Yacoub said the inauguration of the warehouse represents a shift in the kind of support the World Food Programme provides to Ghana, under its Country Strategic Plan from 2019 to 2023.

 A representative of the coalition of the participating 17 farmer-based organizations, Adam Mohammed called for the enforcement of the law on the use of approved weights and measurements. 

The Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Madam Elizabeth Agyemang extolled the Planting for Food and Jobs initiative of the Akufo-Addo led Administration, which she noted had yielded fruitful results since its implementation.

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