Glut-and-scarcity of Fruits/Food!

My experience is that, while fruits and vegetables are weighed and sold by the pound or kilogram in many African countries I have visited, Ghana does not sell fruits and vegetables by weight.

There is no canning to serve as a buffer for balance.WatermelonsRecently I moved out of my comfort zone to explore some parts of Accra I had not visited in a long while.

Fruits are counted and priced!A rough approximation of the average sized watermelon is about the size of a football.

Even if they did not know before becoming leaders, they travel outside Ghana and see the thinking that has gone into basic operations like canning of fruits and juices.

Over sixty years after independence, why do farmers watch helplessly as their fruits and vegetables rot, while our shops are filled with expensive canned fruits from other parts of the world?

Why do we still drive whole coconuts from the Western Region to Accra only for the husks to add to our insanitary conditions?

Fellow Ghanaians, WAKE UP! Brig Gen Dan Frimpong (Rtd)Former CEO, African Peace Support Trainers AssociationNairobi, KenyaCouncil Chairman, Family Health University College, Accra                                                                              [email protected]  

 

 

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