Government has been accused of distributing almost expired fertilizers to farmers.
President of Concerned Farmers Association, Nana Oboadie Opambour Boateng, said the distribution of fertilizers with a November 20, 2018 expiry date, began this month.
He took bags of fertilizers to Parliament where he joined the Minority for a pre-budget news conference that highlighted farmers’ struggle under the present government.
Fertilizers produced in 2016 were distributed for free under the John Mahama government.
In that year, government announced the sharing of some two point five million bags of granular fertilizer and one point four million litres of liquid or foliar fertilizer.
Nana Oboadie said after a change in government in January last year, the new government locked up the fertilizers in warehouses across the country.
He said government explained it was investigating allegations of cronyism in the distribution.
Farmers have constantly complained that the fertilizer distribution chain had been ‘ambushed’ by local power brokers who divert the supplement.
According to him, the distribution restarted only after it was realized the yield-boosting supplement was approaching expiration.
Nana Oboadie relaunched his criticism of the Food and Agriculture Minister, Dr.Owusu Afriyie-Akoto saying the Minister takes decisions without consulting farmer groups.
