The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, George Boahen Oduro is proposing that Ministers of state, as well as, members of parliament be made to go into farming.

According to him, the government is considering replicating the policy which is operational in neighbouring Ivory Coast.

"When you go to Ivory Coast, all the ministers over there are being forced into farming, and all of them have farms. That is what I want us to introduce here," he said on Kumasi FM.

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The Minister who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for New Adubiase said that soon the government would begin implementing the initiative to help increase the nation's food stock.

He said that the situation whereby previous governments focused on state farms was not ideal and therefore state lands should rather be rented out to private entities for farming activities.

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Mr Oduro further touched on the government’s Planting for Food and Jobs initiative which he believes has helped farmers through the provision of subsidized inputs.

Young people have also had jobs following the initiative, he added.