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284 million cedis credit-package
disbursed to 17 farmers groups
Tamale, July 28, GNA- Under the Livestock Development
Project (LDP) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)
over 284 million cedis has been disbursed to 17 livestock
farmer groups in the Tamale Metropolis to increase livestock
production.
Under the package, the beneficiary farmer groups, who are
mainly ruminant farmers each received 30 million cedis which
would be paid over a period of time with an interest rate of
24 per cent.
Mr. Sylvester Adongo, Northern Regional Director of MOFA
said this in a speech read for him at a day’s sensitisation
seminar organised by the Northern Livestock Farmers
Association (NORLFA) in Tamale on Saturday.
The forum was under the theme: "Advocacy for regulatory
policy to check Fulani herdsmen in the North" and was
sponsored by the BUSAC Fund.
Mr. Adongo said under the LDP, 10 districts in the Northern
Region, namely: Tamale Metropolis, Savelugu/Nanton, Tolon/kumbungu,
Central Gonja, West Gonja, East Gonja, Karaga, Gushiegu,
East Mamprusi, Bunkurugu/Yunyo and Saboba/Chereponi
Districts had been selected to benefit.
Mr. Adongo said under the breed improvement component of the
LDP, the Pong-Tamale centre had been renovated and restocked
with improved breeds of small ruminants from which farmers
in the Tamale Metropolis were benefiting from.
The Regional Director of MOFA said the Farmer Project had
also been able to support four nucleus sheep farmers to
establish nucleus sheep farms in the Metropolis.
He however expressed disappointment that under the stock
water development component of the LDP under which eight
communities in the Metropolis were selected to benefit from,
up till now, none of them had benefited from either a
borehole or a dugout.
Mr. Adongo called for a policy to check the harmful
activities of Fulani herdsmen in the country.
Mr. Sumaila Seidu Hudu, Northern Regional Officer of the
Ghana Immigration Service (GIS)-in-charge of alien
registration said the Service had started to introduce the
Alien Registration Card (ARC) to Fulani herdsmen to help
check their movement in the country.
He said their efforts were however been hindered by the
uncooperative attitude of cattle owners and some chiefs and
appealed to the other security agencies, the district
assemblies and opinion leaders to assist the GIS enforce the
laws on the Fulani herdsmen.
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