16,000 Farmers In SADA Zone Benefit From Agricultural Inputs Worth GH¢ 24m

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Jun 20, 2012 at 8:38am

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Sixteen thousand farmers in the SADA zone have benefited from the provision of 100 tractors as well as other agricultural inputs such as quality seeds, fertilizers and agro chemicals all worth GH¢ 24m.

The distribution of the inputs, an initiative of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority, is to modernise agriculture and improve productivity.

Launching the programme in Tamale, Vice President John Dramani Mahama stressed that government recognises agriculture as the backbone of the economy and will do everything to boost the sector.

He announced that the Chinese government has donated 10 million Yuan to SADA for the purchase of three wheel motor cycles to aid in transporting farm produce.

Meanwhile, Vice President Mahama has inspected on-going work on an edible oil producing plant as well as a rice processing factory at Nyankpala in the Northern Region.

The two projects are a collaboration between Arnash Limited, an Indian Company and SADA.

The plant will process groundnut into oil and paste and the residue used for animal feed.

The project will provide 65 direct employment particularly to the youth.

So far, six thousand farmers have been registered to feed the plant with the groundnuts.

The rice plant when completed will produce 450 tonnes of rice per day. This is to make the country self sufficient in terms of rice production.

Mr Mahama urged all not to see the SADA programme as an NDC one but a venture to benefit all governments in the future.

GBC

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