By Nyarko Francis:
The Country Director of The Hunger Project Ghana, a global nonprofit making organization, Mr. Samuel Erasmus Afrane has described the year 2015 as a successful one for the organization since they were able to meet their aspirations and goals.
According to him the Hunger Project was an organization poised to improve the livelihood of the people living in hard to reach communities through social intervention and support.
Mr Afrane speaking on the Rite Morning Ride on Tuesday said they have been able to achieve about 80% of their target, adding that soft loans, subsidized fertilizers as well as agro inputs were made available to improve their farming activities.
He explained that his outfit has been able to train thousands of enumerators who educate the farmers across all the beneficial communities on how to adopt the new technologies in farming, applications of agro chemicals, how to harvest and market their produce among others, are all initiatives Hunger Project put in place and “farmers who go by this education given to them increase their scale of production,” he added.
He explained that government and stakeholders in the agriculture sector needs to put in place measures that will help farmers have access to adequate water throughout the year even if the rains fail and create market avenues for the farmers to sell their harvested crops. According to Mr. Afrane, when this is done farmers welfare will improve and also reduce poverty in Ghana.
He revealed that The Hunger Project is in the process of collaborating with the German government to equip farmers to increase the large scale production of maize, pineapple and rice in all the beneficial communities in the various regions.
Mr. Afrane has therefore urged farmers not to look down upon themselves and that they should try as much as possible to expand their farms since farming has now become business.
Source: ritefmonline.org
