“world market will reject ghana’s farm produce”-garages chairman

Ashanti regional chairman for Ghana National Association of Garages, Nana Osei Bonsu has predicted that Ghana’s exported produce will be rejected on the international market in the next fifteen years to come.
He said most of the crops produced on our farms have been polluted by the menace caused through the operations of small scale mining and will therefore pose a great repercussion on the economy of the country on an international scale.

Through the seeping of poisonous chemicals into water bodies and its usage in the watering of crops, several produce he noted have adversely been poisoned.
According to the chairman, any attempt by government to lift the long imposed ban on small scale mining as announced by President Akuffo Addo will worsen the situation at an exponential rate to the detriment of the nation.

He advised President Nana Addo to maintain the ban on small scale mining as a perpetual injunction to save the nation than to sympathize with the cry of players of small scale mining especially galamsey.
Small scale mining and for that matter galamsey if permited to continue will cause deformity among deliverd babies as a result of the intake of contaminated farm produce by pregnant women and the through the drinking of polluted water bodies.

Nana Osei Bonsu in an exclusive interview with THE PRESS RADIO again cautioned that if government makes an attempt to entertain “galamsey” and small scale mining operations in the country by lifting the ban, Ghana will end up importing water from foreign countries.
He has therefore called on authorities to be firm in their decision (ban) and save the country from any potential economic dilemma.

Source: thepressradio.com/  Enock Akonnor