Under the government policy initiative Rearing for Food and Job (RFJ) 2000 sheep were distributed to interested farmers in five districts in the Upper East Region for rearing. The Regional also mentioned that “2019 we received 2500 cockerels from the Savanna Investment Programme for 5 districts and each district received 500 cockerels and it went to 50 beneficiaries which means 10 cockerels per beneficiary. This was according to the Upper East Regional Director of Agriculture, Mr. Francis Ennor when he spoke to Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Thursday, September 1, 2022. “This means every district had Four Hundred Sheep and it went to 40 beneficiaries and in all these 40 beneficiaries each one was given 10 sheep comprising nine female and one male. And the idea is that the beneficiaries will keep these animals for two or three years. Then, after that, we pick the upspring from them and distribute it to other farmers who could not benefit initially” “So that over time, most of the people within the district will be able to have access to upspring to benefit”.According to Mr. Ennor, those who benefited from the exercise did not pay anything before, giving them the animals. He said: “the only criteria we set were to make sure that you are interested, you are already in the business, you will avail yourself to any programme that comes and you have a house for the animal, you are prepared to feed them, medicate them and we sign MOU with the farmer who develops the interest, that the animals are given to them to make sure that they kept them very well for them to pass on upspring to the other beneficiaries”. Meanwhile, he also revealed that recovery is ongoing, I think there is one particular district we are having some problems with the passing of upspring. Some people have poisoned the mind of some farmers that when they go for the upspring they will toss up and down” he expressed Source: Apexnewsgh.com||Ghana Please for your publication kindly forward your article on apexnewsgh@gmail.com
