From Ghana Business News

The role of local entrepreneurs is crucial to Ghana’s drive towards economic progress, Mr. Affail Monney, President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), has said.

“Although we tend to have a lot of ideas, we hardly manage to put them to practice,” he said when he launched a new brand of local rice “Odeneho Brown Rice” in Accra on Saturday.

Mr Monney said whilst the common cry was for government to create jobs, “such innovation is needed to create employment for idle youth, and also improve upon the general economic well-being of the nation.”

“Such innovation always raises new hope that our local industries still hold seed for the country’s economic growth,” he added.

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