High food cost must end — President Akufo-Addo

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the cost of food is unnecessarily expensive in the country which is blessed with fertile lands.

Underlying the fact that production methods in the agricultural sector were not the best, while income levels of farmers and fishermen remained low, the President said the situation had worked to make the agricultural sector unattractive to the youth as a viable means of livelihood and that the situation ought to be arrested.

He said Information and Communications Technology (ICT) had brought to the fore new ways of doing things, and that given the rapid penetration of ICT in society today, particularly the use of mobile telephony, there was the realisation that ICT should be integrated to be effectively used as a facilitating tool in agricultural development.

The President was addressing the opening session of the annual New Year School and Conference at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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