Chairman of Sakfos Holdings Limited and Founder of the National Interest Movement has said the challenges facing agriculture should not be politicised.

Dr. Abu Sakara said agriculture can be used to better the lives of many Ghanaians.

“We have to get politics out of agriculture. It is not enough to look good all the time when the reality is different.”

According to him, little attention has been paid to the sector over the years, which has hampered its growth.

Speaking on the JoySMS, he told the host, Winston Amoah that agriculture is the backbone of the Ghanaian economy and ought to be treated as such.

“Also, it is not enough to do the bare minimum because agriculture must be supported more, and it must demand more because, if we are able to use that to underpin the economy, the lives of so many people will be better, and it will make even our other problems to be resolved.”

The CPP’s 2012 presidential candidate, also called for more investment in agriculture.

He insisted, “We cannot continue to rely on rain for agriculture.”

Dr. Sakara also called for an extension of air cargo infrastructure in the Northern part of the country.

According to him, this will significantly boost agriculture. “We need to extend air cargo infrastructure to Tamale and out of there as a priority. It’s a very serious constraint on agriculture in the North, because it confines you to growing low-value crops and when you have made investments in equipment, land development, and to some extent localized infrastructure, and you don’t have this infrastructure, it limits what we can do.

“Therefore, it limits your returns on investments, and also you cannot then diversify and have some low-value crops and some high crops,” he stated.