Both livestock and Vegetable farmers in some communities in Ghana's Bawku area have started making good use of the dams constructed under the One Village One Dam-policy. The farmers have started preparing lands for irrigation farming while their livestock have a source of drinking water.
Farmers in five Communities in the Bawku Municipality, four in Garu, three in Bawku West, four in Binduri and five in the Pusiga districts are currently using the dams for irrigation this dry season with the optimism that they would produce enough food to enhance food security in the area. They are growing onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, cabbage and leafy green vegetables. Others are also cultivating groundnuts, rice and maize.
The idea of the policy by government was to encourage all year round farming in the northern part of the country, with each district to benefit from ten dams.
Hajia Hawa Ninchemah, the Bawku Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Wednesday in Bawku, lauded the policy as it had begun to provide jobs and would soon increase the income of the farmers.
She said out of the ten dams ear-marked for the Municipality, five were completed and being used while two were 80 per cent complete and three were at a tender stage of construction.
Mr Paul Azumah Abugri, the District Chief Executive for Tempane said the dams in his district were much appreciated as it would boost both crop and animal production.
