PFAG introduces farmers to Fertiliser Subsidy project
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has introduced some farmers and assembly members in the Gushegu Municipality to a fertilizer Subsidy project as part of efforts to ensure its successful implementation. The Efficient Fertiliser Subsidy Programme for Enhanced Food Production by Small Holder Farmers (SPARK) project is a four-year initiative being implemented by the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) and SEND-GHANA, both non-governmental organisations. Funding from the project is from the International Budget Partnership to advocate for timely delivery and enhanced access to subsidised fertilizer. Under the project, the capacities of the farmers and the assembly members were built to enable them to identify issues and challenges associated with the implementation of the Fertiliser Subsidy Programme (FSP) in the municipality and to seek solutions from relevant local authorities to help improve produc
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The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana(PFAG) with support from Oxfam, Ghana, has presented food items and Personal Protective Equipment(PPEs) worth GH¢100,000 to about 400 needy small holder farmers in the Upper East and North East Regions.
The food items made up of rice and cooking oil were distributed to the beneficiary farmers in the Bolgatanga and Kassena Nankana Municipalities, Bongo, Talensi, Nabdam, Kassena Nankana West, Binduri and Bawku West districts in Upper East Region and Mamprugu Moagduri in the North East Region.
COVID-19 and Floods
The National President of the PFAG, Mr Abdul-Rahman Mohammed observed that the farming activities of members of the Association had been affected by the Coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic and the floods in the two beneficiary regions.
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It argued that even though agroecology was a very good method for agriculture production, which it had not lost sight of, Ghana risked encountering serious food security challenges immediately if the nation insisted on going solely by the method.
“So we have to be careful. These are ideas that we can pursue along some tangent but [for] the totality of our population, they need food and these other fast methods will also have to be used to be able to make us food secure. If we are not food secure, there can even be a war; there will not be peace in this country and at the end of the day we won’t even have time to think about agroe