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We did our best in creating awareness—Upper East Region NADMO Director.

The Upper East Regional Director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Jerry Asamani has refuted claims by some affected farmers that NADMO did not create any awareness ahead of the 2022 Bagre dam spillage. The spillage was done on September 1, 2022 So far, the Bagre dam has destroyed a number of acres of farmland and farm produce ranging from Maize, yellow melon, groundnut, rice and so on. Meanwhile, these affected farmers have blamed the loss of their farm produce along the water route as a result of NADMO’s inability to create awareness on the possible period and time the Bagre dam will be spilled. Responding to the above allegation when Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com contacted him on “SPEAKOUT UPPER EAST REGION” development programme, Mr. Asamanisaid, as for information, he thinks they at NADMO have done enough. According to him “We make sure that coordinators went from house to house in the area and along the river banks. Those complaining, it is possible our area coordinators might have gotten to the house and the landlord wasn’t there or someone wasn’t there to get the information from my coordinators. But that does not mean we didn’t inform them. We spoke to the Chiefs, we spoke to opinion leaders, and we had formerly written to Ghana Education to provide us with their schools in case the people are misplaced” “Is a yearly affair, so anytime the Bagre dam to begin rise that is when we begin to educate the people around. Radio station gives us airtime to educate the communities around the route, even to an extent that we stationed NADMO officials at every official and non-official cross, to advise people not to cross because when they spilled the dam, the water comes without sound. So, our people were at various stations to advise people to use the approved bridges like Kobore and Pawlunge bridges”. He stressed “I won’t begrudge anybody who didn’t have time to listen to the radio or listen to their chiefs but we did our best to educate the people”. He said Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen|Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion, Politics

Bagre dam Spillage: Canoe operators at Timonde route charge between Ghc 10 to Ghc 30 to cross passengers

Apexnewsgh.com has gathered that thousands of farmlands along the White Volta have been submerged following the spillage of Bagre Dam from neighboring Burkina Faso, making it difficult for passengers from Bawku west crossing to Binduri and Garu districts through the Timonde route. Currently, passengers along that route are stranded. “It took me 45minutes to be able to cross to Nafkoliga from Timonde with the canoe”. However, it is said that another man’s food is another man’s poison.The situation has created a lucrative transport business for the canoe user in the area. According to one of the stranded victims who registered his displeasure to Apexnewsgh.com“It used to be ghc2 per person and with a motorbike is ghc10 but now it has risen because of the level of the water to ghc10 per person and with a motorbike gh30. However, this year’s affected farmers have complained that they did not receive any form of alert from those responsible to enable them to harvest some of their already matured farm produced. Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Business

UER: Here are reasons, farmers, distance themselves from cashew plantation–Agric Director

UER: Here are reasons, farmers, distance themselves from cashew plantation–Agric Director The Upper East Regional Director of Agriculture, Mr. Francis Ennor has revealed why Cashew cannot do well in the region. Apexnewsgh.com report The Regional Agric Director made the revelation during an Exclusive Interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Thursday, September 1, 2022. According to the Regional Director, the high weather temperature witnessed in the Upper East Region has a huge effect on the entire quality of the cashew nut.“So, if you looked at it, is not very good in the Upper East unlike the southern sector when they harvest, the temperature is not so high on the nut”. He said Adding that, there is an oil content in the cashew nut and because of the high temperature when it heats up, it affects the nut quality and the buyer doesn’t like it that way. “For the buyers, before they come to buy, they have to do a cutting test and look at the quality before they can price it. If you have a very good quality that is big and good then, it attracts a premium price. So, if the nut is not good, they might reject it or buy it at a very low price. Mr. Ennor also sighted the short rainy period in the region as another reason people of the Upper East Region cannot risk venturing into cashew plantations.In Upper East Region, we expect the rain to come around May, then in June, we can even plant. But here is the case for the past two years, In June we expected the rain to come, but it didn’t come, it goes into July and July too as we experienced this year, it was totally dry. So, imagine if we had planted cashew seedlings very young like that of Mango or any of these products, it will die off. Mr. Ennor stressed And when you are talking about plantations is from ten acres onwards and who will have the urge to do that one and again as a region, we don’t have large land that we give to people to plant these plantations and per the custom of our people, the land they own belongs to the people and the family. So, one particular farmer going to occupy this huge land, denying the other family members over years, is not customarily favorable. Even if you are able to establish during the rainy season, in the dry season people will leave all their animals to come and destroy your plantation, and aside from that, a bushfire is also likely to destroy everything. Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication please kindly contact 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion

Over 320, 000 Farmers in Upper East Region registered under Planting for Food and Jobs

We have registered over 320,000 farmers under the Plant for Food and Jobs (PFJ). This is according to Mr. Francis Ennor, the Upper East Regional Director of Agriculture. Apenewsgh.com report The Regional Agric Director made the revelation during an Exclusive Interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Thursday, September 1, 2022.According to him, the government has contracted Broadspectrum an I.T Company to register farmers in the five northern regions. “So, as a Region, we have over 320,000 farmers that have been registered and the registrations are still ongoing. So, if you are a farmer and you want to have access to the subsidized products, you walk to any of the input dealers who had received the subsidized fertilizer or the seeds, you only need to mention your name and they will open the system and if your name is there, it will show on the system your picture, your farm size and they will ask you the type of fertilizer you want”. The Agric Director Explained He said, the ongoing registration exercise for farmers is a programme under the PFJ introduced by government to help get accurate records of farmers in the region. “ So, this is a programme also under the Planting for Food and Jobs the government also introduced to make sure that we get the exact number of we are dealing with so that we can do proper planning for them. With that, you will that in the region these are the number of farmers we are dealing with. That will also help to monitor the fertilizer that comes in and go out”. Source: Apexnewsgh.com For publication, kindly contact 0256336062 or Email: apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion

All the 16 Districts in the Upper East Region to produce sorghum next farming season—Reg. Dir of Agric

The Upper East Regional Director of Agriculture, Mr. Francis Ennor has revealed that next season all the districts in the Upper East Region will be encouraged to farm sorghum. Apexnewsgh.com report The Regional Agric Director made the revelation during an Exclusive Interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com on Thursday, September 1, 2022. According to the Director, the high demand for sorghum by buyers has made it a point for farmers in the region to take advantage of the already available market. He noted that “Guinness Ghana Limited is buying the Sorghum our farmers produced and Peasant Farmers Association has been at the forefront to organize these farmers. We gave them the production Technologist during our visit and they have been able to produce a lot for the Guinness Ghana people. I quite remember when I came here in 2019, they had enough that the Guinness people warehouse in Accra cannot contain it. So, we have to find a warehouse for them to put the surplus there for them to be picking gradually as at when they need it. So, that is an encouragement”. “For this year, they have actually come in a big way to meet our farmers because the demand they want is very big, they have expanded to 8 districts now producing sorghum for Guinness Ghana and we have made it a target that next year, all the districts should involve themselves in the production of sorghum because there is already an available market for it”. “So, why not take that advantage once the market has been our problem as Agriculture production in the country, so is something good we are doing”. He stressed “And through that, once the market is created we can link the farmers to some aggregators that whatever products that they have, they can be linked to aggregator to come and buy them”. We have started, last year we could not sign MOU with most of them but for this year we are going to sign MOU with all those aggregators or buyers who want to come and buy the product from our farmers. The Regional Director insisted Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana Forward your News Publication on apexnewsgh@gmail.com

Opinion

UER: Farmers to experience low production this farming season because of…

Mr. John Akaribo a peasant farmer with the Upper East Peasant Farmer Association has said due to numerous challenges bedeviling the activities of farmers in the Upper East Region, there is a huge possibility of a reduction in the 2022 farming seasonal activity. Mr. Akaribo revealed this during an exclusive interview with Ngamegbualam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com Wednesday, August 31, 2022. According to him, “Normally in Agriculture when people see that there is a heavy downpour, they think that is all about it but we are talking about the distribution that will make crops very effective. So, this year the distribution is not far and we have already lost some of our early crops like the Naara and other things we have lost lot of them and even in the rice sector, we have also lost the rice in some other parts. Because at the time the rice was germinating, we experience a long drought and some of us will not get anything because of that”. He said“And secondly, Agric Production goes with the subsidies like fertilizers, inputs and this year fertilizer has been a challenge to farmers by way of being inadequate and the high cost of the fertilizer. If a 50kg of fertilizer is going for Ghc 320.00 then how do expect the open market to be? So, these are some of the challenges”. He explained He said: “This implies that farmers will definitely cut production. If you are going in for 10 acres definitely you cannot go in for 10 acres again, you have to reduce it to 5 acres”.However, he believes that food production this year will see a tremendous reduction. “This year, we are likely to see a reduction in production and that implies that we are not going to get anything like the prices of goods and services is going down but we are praying that what we have now in the market can be sustained” he maintained. Source: Apexnewsgh.com

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We did our best in creating awareness—Upper East Region NADMO Director.

Bagre dam Spillage: Canoe operators at Timonde route charge between Ghc 10 to Ghc 30 to cross passengers

UER: Here are reasons, farmers, distance themselves from cashew plantation–Agric Director

Over 320, 000 Farmers in Upper East Region registered under Planting for Food and Jobs

All the 16 Districts in the Upper East Region to produce sorghum next farming season—Reg. Dir of Agric

UER: Farmers to experience low production this farming season because of…

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