7th May, 2019

The Ghanaian Times finds it disturbing and unacceptable that, over 50,000 bags of subsidised fertilisers were smuggled out of the country last year. The paper is particularly worried because the rainy season has begun and farmers are going to plant crops and would need the fertilisers for the season. The Times is sad that with all the efforts that government is making to boost agriculture, few individuals are sabotaging the programme by smuggling a vital input like fertiliser out of the country. It therefore urges government as well as the law enforcement agencies to clamp down on the smugglers so as to stop their activities.