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Mr Francis Ennor, the Upper East Regional Director of the Department of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), says the Region needs 20 combine harvesters to boost services to rice farmers, who annually lose their harvest for lack of the machines.
He said the Agric Directorate had no combine harvester and farmers depended on scarce services of private entrepreneurs.
He said the Region needed combine harvesters to support rice farmers in their cultivation and the Region’s closeness to the North East and Savannah areas, known for rice cultivation, was an added advantage.
Mr Ennor said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga in response to the annual challenges of rice farmers and the absence of some mechanization services during the farming season.