Deriving Economic Freedom For the Third World Countries

Deriving Economic Freedom For the Third World Countries

For third world countries that are not able to grow enough to feed their country men and women, the only solution to this challenging situation is to empower and motivate the local farmers to work. The awareness and sense of responsibility to duty must first of all be created in the minds of the farmers in readiness to meet the task.

This then calls for massive support of man-power and human resource to create an enabling atmosphere. The extreme human capacity to grow beyond measure must be developed in the local farmer and that calls for scientific techniques and unique human abilities. Once the right systems are in place, the farmer must now be motivated to work and that must reflect in huge incentive and remuneration packages.

In Ghana the only time you see a farmer being rewarded is on farmers' day when ones who have distinguished themselves in various sectors of Agriculture are appreciated for applying professional and scientific methods to their work and not for massively growing in numbers. This is where I think we have lost focus. Reasonably the farmer must be rewarded for growing more in numbers to adequately feed citizens, process and export.

An economic expert in Ghana Dr. Kofi Amoah had said sometime back on "modernghana.com" that: every serious economy in the world, at least produces eighty percent of their staple food and that is indeed true. If you produce enough to eat, then the money that is used for imports of foreign foods to supplement what we have can have it own unique benefit. Consider that Ghana grows rice, yet the Ghanaian market is dominated by more than fifty percent of foreign rice brands. To curb this, the government of the day must place a strict embargo on non-prioritized foreign goods, grow more and create a national policy for every Ghanaian the rich, middle-class and poor to necessarily, eat the good of the land. Wearing Ghanaian made fabrics must not be kept out of the plan.

The sad thing is that, Ghanaians are not proud of their own domestic produce. The rich most likely claim the locally produced brown rice is not attractive but then the fact remains that Ghana can see a vibrant economy only if we create the discipline of eating our locally grown foods.