Bullu fishermen want fishing inputs

Bullu (Upper West), 3rd June 99 -

The people of Bullu, a farming community in the Sisala district of the Upper West Region, have appealed to the government to supply them with fishing inputs at subsidised prices to enable them to engage in full time fishing after crop farming seasons.

The Minister of Food Agriculture should also supply them with fingerlings to augment fish spices in their dams.

Mr Sumani Sulemana, the assemblyman for the area who made the appeal on behalf the chief and people of the village said fishing which is their second major occupation has been discontinued for some time now for lack of logistics.

As a result, he said, the village has engaged a Burkinabe fisherman who shares his catch with the chief and elders.

Mr Sulemana said the provision of inputs at subsidised prices will enable them to work and defray their cost and improve on their income levels.

"In view of the erratic rainfall pattern and poor farming lands it is better for us to shift to fishing to supplement our food crop cultivation", the assemblyman stressed.

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