FOSTERING BROAD-BASED RURAL GROWTH IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

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FOSTERING BROAD-BASED RURAL GROWTH IN WEST AND
CENTRAL AFRICA

• Francis Ofori
• Ministry of Food and Agriculture,
• P O Box M.37, Accra, Ghana

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Some Suggested Areas for Consideration

• Institutional Building and Human Resource
  Development
• Organise and Empower Farmers to source technology
  and credit

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Some Suggested Areas for Consideration

• Improve the Generation and Dissemination of
  Scientific Information on some High Value
  Commodities to Generate Rural Incomes
• Enhance Agricultural Productivity through
  Provision of some Selected Commodities to Ensure
  Food Security and Generation of Income

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Some Suggested Areas for Consideration

• Credit for Agriculture
• Issues related to Post Production
• Restoration and Preservation of the Soil Resource
  Base

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Some Suggested Areas for Consideration

• Development of Infrastructure to Link High Food
  Production Areas and Urban Centres
• Deficiencies in Policy Formulation and
  Development
• Investment in Irrigation

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Some Suggested Areas for Consideration

• Promoting Rural Growth in Ghana

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The Five Priority Areas under the Ghana Poverty
Reduction Strategy are

• Infrastructural development
• Modernised agriculture based on rural development
• Enhanced social services
• Good governance
• Private sector development