The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has presented 40,000 bags of fertilisers to eight regions and constituencies in the country.
The fertilisers, donated to the ministry by the Moroccan government last week, are intended to be freely distributed to farmers in those regions and constituencies so they can increase food production in the country.
The beneficiary regions and constituencies are the Volta Region, 20,000 bags; the Oti Region, 10,000 bags; the Peasant Farmers Association, 5000 bags; the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency, 1,000 bags; the Afram Plains North and South constituencies, 1000 bags each; the Jirapa Constituency, 500 bags, the Sekyere Afram Plains Constituency, 1000 bags and the Bia West Constituency, 500 bags.
Additionally, the ministry had allocated fertilisers to the Upper East, Upper West, North East and Savannah regions.
The Minister of MOFA, Eric Opoku, made the presentation in Accra yesterday, while the regional ministers and Members of Parliament (MPs) of the beneficiary regions and constituencies received on behalf of the farmers in their jurisdiction.
Mr Opoku urged the ministers and MPs to ensure that the fertilisers were directly received by the farmers so that they would have the desired impact.
Recall
It will be recalled that the July 29, 2025, edition of the Daily Graphic published that MOFA had received 2,000 metric tonnes of fertiliser from the government of Morocco to support the national agriculture efforts.
It was one of the outcomes of a two-day working visit to Morocco by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in early June this year.
Diversion
Mr Opoku cautioned against the diversion of the fertilisers, pointing out that there had been records of similar diversions almost every year.
“But this time, we have decided to give the fertilisers to the targeted groups. You are the leaders of the people, and you also share in the responsibility to ensure that we achieve the best for them. We believe that you can deliver without any mistakes,” he said.
He explained that diverting the fertilisers meant they would not have the benefits the donors expected from the donation.
The Agriculture minister said a follow-up would be conducted later to ensure the fertilisers were directly distributed to the farmers.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiary regions and constituencies, the Volta Regional Minister, James Gunu, said agriculture alone employed about 60 per cent of the people in his region, therefore, if proper investments were made into agriculture, they would be able to feed the region and, by extension, Ghana.
He said that in distributing the fertilisers to the farmers, they would deal more with farmer cooperatives instead of individuals.
Touching on the Feed Ghana Programme, he said it was a good initiative that had resonated very well with the people in his region to the extent that the Regional House of Chiefs, youths, churches and institutions there had requested to be part of the programme.
Fake publication
Meanwhile, the ministry has warned Ghanaians to ignore an online publication requesting applications from small and medium-scale agribusinesses for a supposed grant scheme.
The Head of the Public Relations Unit of MOFA, Osei-Opoku Gyamfi, stated that the website, email address, and contact details mentioned in the publication had no connection whatsoever with MOFA. He, therefore, urged the public not to engage with it.
Mr Gyamfi said the publication aimed to persuade small and medium-scale agricultural businesses to register with an entity called the Global Farmers Association (GFA), based in Nairobi, Kenya, to obtain a certificate of accreditation under a non-existent Agricultural SMEs Grant Initiative 2025.
He described this as fake and fraudulent, emphasising that the ministry distanced itself from it.
