The General Agriculture Workers Union of the Trade Union Congress has supported farmers in the Kassena-Nankana East District with farming inputs to enhance their farming activities.
The items are 12 Knapsack sprayers and 7 large turpurlines. The items are aimed at addressing some constraints that farmers in the district face including pest and weed attack and the difficulty of threshing their rice on the ground.
The beneficiary farming communities are Bornia, Korania, Nayagnia, Doba and Kugwania.
The Coordinating Officer of GAWU, Mr. Karim Saagbul said the support is being sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency, (CIDA) under the Strategic Intervention for Gender Equality Project,(SIGEP).
The goal of SIGEP is to contribute to gender-based sustainable poverty reduction through targeted support to state and non-state and state actors for strategic initiatives that advance equality between women and men and women’s empowerment.The purpose of SIGEP is to improve the capacity of non-state actors to address strategic gender interests, specifically in two of CIDA’s priority sectors: Food Security and Agriculture and Water and Sanitation.
He noted that one of the biggest problems facing smallholder farmers in Ghana, including the farmers in the beneficiaries who are mainly in vegetable and rice farming is the issue of post harvest loses.
He expressed the hope that the items donated will go a long way to help the farmers in managing the challenges they face.
The Regional Industrial Relations Officer of GAWU, Mr. Hypolyte Alua since agriculture is the mainstay of the economy of the district, any assistance to the sector was a step in the right direction.
The Regional Chairman of GAWU, Mr. Martin Pwayidi who received the items on behalf of the beneficiaries expressed the hope that GAWU and other organizations would continue to promote agriculture in the district to boost the morale of farmers to spur them on to improve productivity at all times
The items are 12 Knapsack sprayers and 7 large turpurlines. The items are aimed at addressing some constraints that farmers in the district face including pest and weed attack and the difficulty of threshing their rice on the ground.
The beneficiary farming communities are Bornia, Korania, Nayagnia, Doba and Kugwania.
The Coordinating Officer of GAWU, Mr. Karim Saagbul said the support is being sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency, (CIDA) under the Strategic Intervention for Gender Equality Project,(SIGEP).
The goal of SIGEP is to contribute to gender-based sustainable poverty reduction through targeted support to state and non-state and state actors for strategic initiatives that advance equality between women and men and women’s empowerment.The purpose of SIGEP is to improve the capacity of non-state actors to address strategic gender interests, specifically in two of CIDA’s priority sectors: Food Security and Agriculture and Water and Sanitation.
He noted that one of the biggest problems facing smallholder farmers in Ghana, including the farmers in the beneficiaries who are mainly in vegetable and rice farming is the issue of post harvest loses.
He expressed the hope that the items donated will go a long way to help the farmers in managing the challenges they face.
The Regional Industrial Relations Officer of GAWU, Mr. Hypolyte Alua since agriculture is the mainstay of the economy of the district, any assistance to the sector was a step in the right direction.
The Regional Chairman of GAWU, Mr. Martin Pwayidi who received the items on behalf of the beneficiaries expressed the hope that GAWU and other organizations would continue to promote agriculture in the district to boost the morale of farmers to spur them on to improve productivity at all times
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