Women Groups in Central Gonja District set to plant cashew trees

A Community-Based Organization, (CBO) called Love Life school in Belgium has supported some selected women groups in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region of Ghana with seedlings of cashew.

The Belgium organization quest is to mitigate the effects of climate change with the cashew tree planting programme.

The programme is in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) through its Extension Officers to help implement and monitor the cashew planting.

The programme is being piloted in two farming communities, Bilsikura and Lingbinkura.

The plants would be monitored and assessed for further expansion of the support.

The country coordinator for the programme Mr Mahama Fuzzy indicated that “it is a well-thought-through programme that will invariably go a long way to ameliorate living standards of households in these localities and thereby reducing poverty levels as it gradually stretches to other parts of the district in due time”.

He, therefore, called on all inhabitants in these localities and the district at large to rally their support behind this great drive to yield positive results.

The beneficiary women in these communities have been allocated an acre of land each and provided the requisite seedlings, weedicides and pesticides to interplant with cowpea in their farms.

In presenting the seedlings to some of the beneficiaries, Mr Fuzzy asked the women to work assiduously to enable the sustainability of the programme in the Central Gonja District.

The Belgium CBO paid for the acquisition of the land and all farm equipment for the programme.

Abdul Sammed Gurundari, Savannah Region