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Michael Owusu Duodou, GNA

Kwatire (B/R), Oct.
10, GNA – Ghanaians have been called inculcate the habit of eating locally
grown produce as this would greatly aid governments agriculture policies.

Mr Kofi Vinyo, Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Kofi Vinyo Company Limited, producers of food
supplements like tigernuts, flour, ginger, and red pepper flours, based at
Kwatire, near Sunyani, the Bono regional capital, said this in an interview
with the Ghana News Agency.

“Our generation is
suffering partly due to our poor eating habits – we eat anything at any time
and this is not helpful to our health”, “he said and urged parents to feed
their children with our indigenous foods as this would build them.

“If a high profile
personality like America’s Marcus Tailor, two – time World Body Building
Champion has come to live in Ghana to eat our indigenous foods for his trade,
why should we leave our own for foreign ones – let’s eat what we grow and save
our nation from importing needless goods, “he said.

Mr Vinyo called on
the government to declare Ghana an organic country, to boost agriculture and
improve our economy.

GNA


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