“Last year, although we targeted 47,761 farmers under the Planting for Food and Jobs programme, in the end, we registered 66,680 farmers, 20,000 more than were originally targeted are now under the programme.” “Bawku Naba you can see how seriously the programme is unfolding, and on top of it too, the six warehouses in the Kusaug Traditional Area are being constructed and are 80 per cent complete,” he said.
The President told the Bawku Naba that the PFJ programme was progressing steadily in the same way the six warehouses begun in the area, adding that in order for farmers to engage in all-year-round farming, over 40 dams were built in the Kusaug Traditional Area as part of the ‘One District, One Factory’ policy.
“In the same way under the ‘One District, One Factory’ policy, we are going to establish, very soon, a guinea fowl processing factory here in Bawku,” he said..
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