Commercial rice farmers across Northern Ghana are mobilising for a massive demonstration in Tamale on Monday, November 10, 2025, to protest what they describe as the government’s neglect of the country’s food production sector.

The action is being organised with strong backing from key agricultural bodies, including the Association of Rice Producers and Millers, Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana, Association of Soya Value Chain Actors, Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Ghana National Association of Farmers & Fishermen (GNAFF), General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), CropLife Ghana, among others.

The decision follows months of frustration after the government, on September 23, 2025, assured that the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) would procure all harvested rice and maize to stabilise prices.

Farmers say this promise has not materialised, leaving thousands stranded with unsold produce.

The Executive Director of Akuato Nketewa Company Limited, Mr Charles Ayamba, told Class 91.3 FM’s Moses Apiah that the demonstration is the only resort left for the farmers to convey their plight.

This is to solicit attention from the government to do the needful, he concluded.

Published Date: November 5, 2025