(Togo First) - Togo's National Food Security Agency (ANSAT) launched last weekend a grain purchase operation from producers in various localities. The purchase, we learn, will allow the agency to boost the existing food security stock and respond more effectively to populations’ needs.
For the first phase of the operation, the agency headed by Ouro-Koura Agadazi was in the Plateaux region where it bought 15t of white maize, 4t of sorghum, 10t of white rice, and 20t of unhulled paddy rice.
According to the authorities, this operation, which comes as the country records widespread inflation, is to help increase existing stocks of products, so that they can be made available to households at an affordable cost in the event of shortages.
This purchase operation not only boosts ANSAT’s stock but also constitutes financial support and investment to producers for the new agricultural campaign, said Napo Gnofam, in charge of product processing at ANSAT.
The operation will, according to ANSAT, continue throughout this week in other localities.
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