Mr Kofi Humado, Minister of Food and Agriculture has announced that government has allocated rice production targets to all regions in the country to become self-sufficient by 2017.
He said Ghana had already become self-sufficient in yam, cassava and maize production and a breakthrough in rice production would therefore make the country a leading food producer for both domestic consumption and export to neighbouring countries.
Mr Humado said this when he addressed the chiefs and people of the Likpe traditional area during their biennial Lekoryi festival celebration at Likpe- Mate in the Volta Region.
The festival, which was on the theme:"Self- Help in Infrastructure Development" is celebrated every two years to harness financial and economic resources to support the development projects in the area.
It was first celebrated in 1988 and had since brought together the sons and daughters of the area to make useful decisions towards the development of the traditional area.
The occasion also gave the citizens the opportunity to recollect their ancestral beliefs that they carried from the ancient Ghana Empire and later to Atebubu in the Brong Ahafo Region, from where they moved to their current settlements.
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