The award winning Eastern Regional best farmer for the year 2010, Mr. Michael Samadji has revealed that farming outputs in the country have woefully and drastically reduced compared to previous years. This he has attributed to the lack of good and adequate farm inputs available to farmers to help them maximize their yield.
Mr Samadji who was a guest on Rite FM’s Morning Ride on Thursday said government should as part of its responsibilities towards enhancing productive farming, make available farm inputs such as tractors to farmers on credit basis; unfortunately, that is not so.
He noted that government in the past gave out fertilizers to farmers to help boost agriculture activities in the country. All these benefits, he lamented are no more and he appealed to the authorities to bring back this system of fertilizers and tractors given to farmers on credit basis.
According to Mr. Samadji, this would really help the farmers to produce to their maximum. That is not all; he appealed to government to rehabilitate the warehouse at the Afram Plains where they can also store their produce.
Mr. Samadji added that they only had one problem when it came to marketing which involved the market women. He said the market women have been cheating farmers by dictating what prices to pay for their farm produce especially when there was bumper harvest. Mr. Samadji however added that some of the road networks were now improved which aids farmers transport their produce from the farms to the market centers.
Source: ritefmonline.org
