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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 33304, member: 636"]
President Mahama handed out farming supplies for the national food program on Saturday. He handed maize seeds, fertilizers, a truck, and tractors to prison services and national service officials in Techiman. Everyone needs to work together to transform farming into an engine for growth because the Feed Ghana Program offers real action rather than empty words. He admitted farming challenges exist but believes the program will bring great results. All farmers, businesses, financial groups, and partners should join forces to achieve the best results from this effort.

The program creates new ways to grow more food with modern farm techniques and better systems across Ghana. Farmers will have service centers that give them tools, good materials, money, market connections, processing, and training. Young farm entrepreneurs can use special land banks set up in areas with irrigation. The program aims to produce more maize, rice, soybeans, and sorghum for eating, processing, and selling abroad. The vegetable part, called Yeredua, wants local growing instead of buying from other countries.

Money will support greenhouse systems, city gardens, and school vegetable plots to grow food locally. Families can learn to raise tomatoes, peppers, and garden eggs for their needs. High schools might receive land to grow crops and raise animals. The program includes reviving chicken farming through the Nkoko Nketenkete project as part of the complete plan.
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