A total number of 1, 896 farmers in the Jirapa Municipality will receive ten kilograms of hybrid corn seed for planting, a bag of uria fertilizer, and two bags of NPK fertilizer each for this year’s cropping season under the grant component of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme.
This has been made possible through the government’s flagship programme, Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ), for farmers who registered early and are receiving the farm inputs for free.
Registration for the other component is still ongoing.
The distribution of the inputs have begun and was witnessed by the Municipal Chief Executive Officer, Hon. Nicholas Soyiri, a representative of the New Patriotic Party’s Parliamentary Candidate for the Jirapa Constituency, Mr. Ali Domah and the Municipal Agric Officer, Mr. Joseph Kambunaba.
In a brief address, Hon. Soyiri underscored the importance of food and admonished the farmers to use the inputs for the the purposes for which they were provided.
He said the programme is solely a government initiative by the president and the vice president and supported he and the NPP Parliamentary Candidate, Hajia Aisha Salifu.
On his part Mr. Domah on behalf of Hajia Salifu said the hardships being faced by people is not unique to Ghana but a global phenomenon in which the case Ghana may be much more better.
He asserted that programmes like these have been adopted to make life easier for the citizenry and that more should be expected if the NPP government and the Parliamentary Candidate of the NPP are retained.
He added that matters of hunger is not about politics but about who can save the situation.
Throwing more light on the PFJ programme, Municipal Agric Director, Mr. Kambunaba said grant component is just a part of the PFJ programme and that registration is still ongoing for the main programme.
He said so far 1, 150 farms have been mapped and a total number 3, 123 farmers registered out of a targeted 6000.
Registration is still ongoing and he is encouraging farmers to use the advantage to register through their agric extension officers.