Jackson advocate., 1960-12-31
Ghana Releases
Plan For Socialist
Type Economy

Accra, Gnana A DlueprlnC
for a planned socialist-type econ
omy for Ghana, embracing wide
spread cooperative farming and a
bigger role for cooperatives in re-
tail trade, has been published here.
It emerged from a delegate con-
ference Sunday of the ruling Con-
vention Peoples Party of this
west African nation and it's main
allies - the Trade Union Cong
ress, the United Ghana Farmers
Council and the National Cooper
ative Council.
In a 12-point resolution, the
conference called on the govern
ment urgently to consider estab-
lishment Of a national planning
commission headed by a Cabinet
minister. The commission would
have powers to call for statistical
information from all ministers as
we'll as from the cooperative and
private sectors of the country's
economy.
The commission also would work
hand-in-hand with Ghana's Gen.
trail Bureau of Statistics to plan
the nations economic production
and consumption goals, foreign ex-
change earnings, and the tapping
of Ghanaian savings and taxation
to finance development.
The commission also would de-
eide the Sacrifices which workers
and farmers should make in the
interests of rapid economic de-
velopment."
The resolution urged the gov
ernment to empower the Bank
of Ghana to be sole buyer Of
Ghana's entire gold output and
said the government should set up
a single diamond marketing board
to buy and sell the country's en-
tire output of rought diamonds s
overseas.
1t was unsound policy, the con-
ference said, for all Ghana's gold
output to be sold abroad when
African central banks would soon-
er or later have to hold their own
gold reserves.
The resolution said the present
practice of allowing expatriate
marketing companies to dominate
the diamond market at Accra
should be discontinued by the end
of 1861 at the latest.
A state trading corporation
should be set up not later thar
the beginning Of 1862 to be re-
sponsible for wholesale import OF
building materials, rice, canned
meat, livestock, beverages, phar-
maceuticals, cotton, textiles, and
footwear, the resolution declared
It also called for accelerated es-
tablishment of marketing boards
charged with responsibility fol-
fixing the price of industrial OF
export crops such as peanuts, corn
rice, cotton, yams, tobacco, fish
eggs, poultry, and beef.
At the same conference plan:
were outlined for a big develop
ment in cooperative farming thr,
the country.
R. o. Amoamo-Atta, Ghana''
Minister Of Labor and Coopera
tives, said the Ministry of Agr'
culture should plan agriculture
production in individual villages
districts and regions to produce
more crops.
Responsibility for the organiza
ton of cooperative farms wouit
rest with the Ghana United Farm
ers Council.
Martin Appiah- -Danquah, gen.
eral secretary of the farmers couh
Gil, said all villages would forr
their own farming societies, which
would sell produce to one nation
al cooperative society.
Profits Of each village farming
society would be used to provide
for the needs Of its own commun.
ity, which also would get day
nursery and an electricity supply
he told the conference.
M. Amoako-Atta, deputy gov
ernor Of the Bank Of Ghana, said
to achieve the establishment Of
consumer stores the government
must impose export and import
controls. undertake the entire
wholesale business Of Ghana thru
cooperatives, and enter into BIZ
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