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Peasant farmers want government support to improve on their farming activities

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Peasant farmers in the Upper East Region have called on the government to devise measures that can help them gain loans from various credit facilities.

The loan facilities, they believed will help end the challenges of not having access to farming inputs as well as increased their food production.

In an interview with the Upper East Regional Focal Person of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Reverend John Akaribo on A1 Radio, he noted that majority of farmers still face the challenges of not having access to seeds and fertilizers every year.

According to him, though the government has initiated numerous interventions that seek to revitalize the agricultural sector, farmers in the rural areas are still confronted with such challenges.

Reverend Akaribo stressed that “…it is not only about the poor market for our produces that we are faced with each year. It is about how we can have access to loans from the banks to increase our production. As farmers, we aim at making Ghana a food hub in Africa, but with these challenges how can we do that. Each year, we usually struggle in terms of getting access to seeds and fertilizers. And if the government can assist us in this, I think Ghana will soon become a food hub.”

Touching on the 2021 budget hearing, Reverend Akaribo stated that it did not speak much about their benefits.

Per his view, farmers in the Upper East Region would have been happier if the budget was able to touch on the revamping of the Vea Dam in the Bongo District.

“…but just like many of my colleagues, we were all disappointed that we did not hear something like that. This dam, governments upon governments have made numerous pledges of revamping it but here it is. This dam will do us especially majority of farmers in the region better than its current state.”

Meanwhile, the government on its 2021 budget stressed that it will focus its energy to complete the Pwulugo multipurpose dam in 2025.

Source: A1radioonline.com/ 101.1 MHz/Moses Apiah/Ghana

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