News:
August 25, 2017
The honorable Member of Parliament for the Talensi constituency in the Upper East region Benson Tongo Baba is investing heavily into mechanize agricultural production to improve the lots of his constituents and beyond.
He has secured five tractors from John Deere to help plough the lands for the farmers to cultivate on large scale basis.
The tractor services are highly subsidised in order to motivate majority of the people especially the youth into agriculture.
86 hand pumping machines, as well as unspecified number of chemical sprayers have also been acquired to improve irrigation of the farms, ensure work efficiencyand reduce human labor and increasing output.
He is particularly happy that most youth in the area were going into agriculture and this has encouraged him to do more to help their course.
Hon BT Baba has also procured 20 canoes for the safety of farmers during harvest in the flood prone area especially in every August when Bagri dam is opened from Burkina Faso.
He hinted that an additional 20 canoes for both fishermen and cash-cropping purposes would be procured.
Guinea fowl production within the Talensi constituency has also received a major boost following the provision of five incubators for hatching.
This, he noted has resulted in the hatching of 2000 fowls within 28 days, 10,000 fowls in a month.
For the past six months, 120,000 guinea fowls were hatched.
The MP urged the Ministry of Agriculture to enhance agriculture production by instituting policies especially irrigation to promote the cultivation of all kinds of crops even cocoa on Ghana’s arable lands for the country to experience all year round water for Agriculture purposes.
By Christian Kpesese/ ghanamps.com