John Atta Mills Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Agriculture, energy access and rural development==== The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) law was passed and work was started to open up the three Northern regions, Brong Ahafo and Volta Regions to enhance agriculture production and industrialisation. Under Mills, the producer price of cocoa increased appreciably to $1600 per tonne of 16 bags, which was the highest in the sub-region and the highest that had ever been paid to cocoa farmers in Ghana's entire history.<ref name="ghanaweb1"/> Cocoa production also hit a record-breaking 1 million metric tonnes.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> Under the rural electrification programme, he extended national electricity coverage from 54% to 72% improving livelihoods in 1,700 communities and making [[Ghana]] the third best country in [[sub-Saharan Africa]] after [[Mauritius]] and [[South Africa]] with enhanced energy access.<ref name=autogenerated2 /><ref>{{cite web |title=IEA - Energy access database |url=http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/resources/energydevelopment/energyaccessdatabase/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013055039/http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/resources/energydevelopment/energyaccessdatabase/ |archive-date=13 October 2016 |work=worldenergyoutlook}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page