(Ecofin Agency) - South Korea has provided Ghana $9 million to boost rice farming in the Central Region. This was announced by Ghana’s minister of agriculture, Owusu Afriyie Akoto (picture). 

The official explained the choice of the region by its potentials for the large scale production of the cereal, not only for local consumption but for export as well.  

Let’s recall that 70% of Ghana’s demand for rice is satisfied with imports. Actually, between 2007 and 2015, rice imports in the country soared from $152 million to $1.2 billion.  

In Ghana, rice farming is practiced mainly on a semi-intensive basis by small farmers in swamps. 

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