PLANTING FOR EXPORT AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (PERD): A PERSPECTIVE
Annually the value of imported food into the country stands at a whopping US $2.4 billion. Key products that are imported are frozen chicken, meat, and rice, tomato paste, cooking oil, sugar and sorghum. “At US$2.4 billion, the cost of food imports is about a quarter of the value of non-oil imports, which closed 2017 […]