ADRA assists Upper East Farmers

Paga (Upper East) 25 June ?99

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) provided 941 farmers in the Upper East Region with farm inputs worth 200 million cedis to enable them to expand and improve their farms between 1996 and 1998.

The farmers, drawn from 47 communities, were given improved seeds, fertilizers and tree-seedlings. They are expected to pay back with 15 per cent interest.

Mr Anthony A. Mainoo, ADRA Agro Forestry Extension Officer, said this at the opening of a three-day workshop for Paga Community Trainers of the Collaborative Community Forestry Initiative (CCFI).

The workshop will enable the participants to educate their people to be able to take over the CCFI tree nurseries in 10 communities of the Kassena Nankana district.

Mr Mainoo said one of the objectives of ADRA is to help increase agricultural yield and that the agency is collaborating with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) to assist households to construct efficient earthen storage units