Mr. Stephen Adongo, team leader of the Market Development plan, MADE, of the Northern Region of Ghana has dismissed claims that Real Estate developers are a threat to the agricultural sector in Ghana where they tend to be gradually taking over farmlands, stressing that farmers rather resort to the use of ‘Certified Seeds’ to gain maximum yield.
According to Mr. Adongo, the threat of the country running out of lands to estate developers could be real in the capital region of the country which is the Greater Accra region. However, he’s strongly convinced that there is enough land available to Ghana and Estate developers can’t possibly overrun all to the detriment of the agricultural sector.
Mr. Adongo advocated for the training of farmers on the national scale to adopt the kind of farming system where smaller sizes of land are used for maximum farm production. He said this could be achieved through farmers taking a bow out of the age old practice of planting seeds of crops and replanting the same seeds after harvesting and rather adopt the special kinds of seeds which are under production in the northern region. He said those seeds produce maximum yields where farmers don’t need large hectares of land for farming.
The team leader of MADE told Michael Oberteye of Rite FM and ritefmonline.org on the sidelines of the Agrique Africa Investment Forum at the World Trade Center in Accra, that his agency has trained a number of farmers in the north of the country where several of them have appreciated using these seeds and the benefits are phenomenal.
By: Michael Oberteye
From the World Trade Center, Accra
Source: ritefmonline.org
