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No cassava imports from China-MoFA clarifies

March 30, 2022
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The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has denied claims that Ghana imports cassava from China.

The allegation of Ghana importing cassava from China was made by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Asunafo South Constituency in the Ahafo Region, Mr. Eric Opoku.

MoFA, in a statement, has, however, described Mr. Opoku’s claim as “false and pure fake news”.

The ministry has issued a disclaimer in a statement dated 28 March 2022 signed by the Public Relations office.

The statement said contrary to Mr. Opoku’s claim, Ghana is rather a net exporter of cassava.

MoFA has, thus, called on the public to treat the claims by the NDC MP as false with all the contempt it deserves.

Below is the full statement:

RE: HON. ERIC OPOKU PEDDLED FALSEHOOD, GHANA IS NOT AN IMPORTER OF RAW CASSAVA – MINISTRY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
The attention of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture has been drawn to very wild and outrageous claims by a Member of Parliament for Asunafo South, Hon. Eric Opoku, that Ghana imported cassava from China in 2019.

The Ministry wishes to state emphatically that the claim by the NDC MP is false and pure fake news.

This can only be the trademark of a person who engages in propaganda and misinformation for political expediency.

Secondly, to openly deceive the people of Ghana, he gave the clear impression that the ‘cassava imports’ he referred to was freshly harvested raw cassava crops.

However, empirical data from various sources, including the Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI), Ghana Shippers Authority, and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), specifically refer to processed industrial cassava such as starch, gari, cassava flour, tapioca, etc.

Ghana is a net exporter of cassava products.

The table below gives a summary of the volume and value of exports and imports of Cassava Products traded in the years 2019 and 2020.

VOLUME AND VALUE OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OFCASSAVA PRODUCTS (PROCESSED) – 2019 AND 2020

2019 – 2020

  1. Volume of Exports (MT) 4,709 – 6,444
  2. Volume of Imports (MT) 747 – 562 3. Value of Exports (GH¢ Million) 13.7 – 10.4
  3. Value of Imports (GH¢ Million) 2.5 – 1.5

Source: Ghana Statistical Service

The table shows that the value of exports of processed cassava in 2019 was GH₵13.7 million compared to GH₵2.5 million in imports. In the same vein, in 2020, processed cassava export was GH ₵ 10.8 million compared to GH ₵ 1.5 million of imports total production of cassava in Ghana in 2019 was 19.4 million metric tonnes.

Besides this, the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorates of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which is the agency responsible for issuing permits for the importation of agricultural produce, did not issue any permit for the importation of cassava into Ghana.

The NDC Honourable Member of Parliament, in his desperate attempts to discredit this government’s enviable record in agriculture, failed to avert his mind to the fact that some of the derivatives from cassava are used for other purposes, including manufacturing of drugs, textiles, amongst others, are not manufactured locally and therefore have to be imported.

Is this what Hon. Eric Opoku terms as importation? How pathetic! Then we can as well say that Ghana imports cocoa because there several cocoa products that are imported into the country. Perhaps drenched in hin propaganda, which is typical of him and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hon. Eric Opoku failed to appreciate the fact that such claims are easily verifiable by the institutions in charge of collecting data on all items imported or exported into and from the country.

We wish to call on the public to treat the claims by the Honourable Member with all the contempt it deserves.

Ghana has since the rollout of the flagship Planting for Food and Job programme in 2017, been touted as the breadbasket of West Africa; a feat we will continue to pride ourselves on, thanks to the outstanding commitment of the President, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo and the Sector Minister, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto.

Source:agrictoday.com.gh

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