President Nana Akufo-Addo has outdoored a new agenda his government will adopt to revamp the economy.
The government has tasked the Millennium Development Authority to see to the implementation of the Novel Agricultural Focus Economic Enclave. Under this program, the government is making available suitable lands fitted with power supply, irrigation, warehousing, and other inputs to enable stress-free farming across the country, with the aim of driving interest in commercial agriculture with the ultimate aim of revamping the ailing economy.
President Akufo-Addo states that under the Novel EEP, his “government is facilitating the availability of suitable and well-prepared land fitted with farm roads, power supply, irrigated water, some farming equipment and much-needed infrastructure for trainee farmers’ accommodation, grain processing import and equipment storage and warehousing.”
This forms part of an 8-point agenda highlighted by President Akufo-Addo listed below:
- Supporting commercial farming and attracting educated youth into commercial farming.
- Building the country’s life manufacturing sector
- Developing engineering machine tools in ICT digital economy industry
- Fast-tracking digitization
- Developing Ghana’s Housing and Construction Industry
- Establishing Ghana’s regional hub
- Reviewing optimizing implementation of the government’s flagship and key programs
- Creating jobs for young people and expanding opportunities to the vulnerable in society including physically challenged persons
