By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), has announced it will make some adjustments to its ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ (PFJ) Market model.
The Agric Ministry in November 2022, introduced the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ Market to sell foodstuff to civil servants at the premises of the Ministry at a cheaper cost.
The initiative was extended to other parts of the country including Kumasi, Takoradi, and Cape Coast.
According to the Ministry from now on, independent suppliers of food will take charge of the supply of food to the market instead of the Ministry.
In an interview with Journalists, Press Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, Issah Alhassan Ridwan explained that the Ministry would supervise the operations of the independent food suppliers to ensure that the right measures are practised especially where affordable pricing of commodities is concerned.
“Once we have now established the various suppliers, and they have agreed to do business with the PFJ market, what we are going to do right now is to allow these suppliers to be independent to operate, except that the Ministry of Agric from time to time will be monitoring the price because the major factor when it’s come to PFJ is the pricing, we want the consumers to be comfortable with the pricing,” the Press Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture noted.