The Former Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development and Former Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Twifo Atti-Morkwa Constituency in the Central Region, Hon. Abraham Dwuma Odoom has shared frustration on foods usually served at Ghanaian eateries and hotels.

According to him, healthy foods like indigenous Ghanaian dishes augment productivity among individuals through its imbibed natural nutrients, yet such foods unfortunately appears rare at the country's highly rated hotels and restaurants unlike Nigeria and India who hardly do away with their local cuisines to serve foreign foods.

He noted that it's about time hotels and restaurants in the country shove off the foreign foods it often serves in replace of Ghana's indigenous foods to its customs, particularly the foreign ones to let them have a feel of the country's nutritious local foods like Tuo Zaafi, Waakye, Fufu, Kenkey, Banku, Boiled yam or plantain among others, which he highlighted that in so doing will help boost the country's agricultural sector.

Hon. Dwuma Odoom made this statement at the 6th annual conference of the Ghana Association of Agricultural Economists (GAAE) at the University of Cape Coast themed: 'Sustainable Food Systems For National Development'.

Former Deputy Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) who doubles as a member of GAAE, Dr. Peter Boamah Otokunor at the program narrated to Sompa News Eric Annan that Ghana's food systems is presently non-existent, hence the need for the Agric Ministry to take keen interest in the association's conference to deprive a more efficient sustainable food system to replace the country's wambling one.

Professor Irene Egyir, Dean for the School of Agriculture at the University of Ghana equally implored the country's agric sector leadership for the implementation of substantial measures, as she as well pleaded on well-to-do individuals in the country to invest in the agricultural sector to help harness the untapped potentials the sector poses.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan