Farmers benefit from food security project

About 10,300 poor and vulnerable farmers from 65 communities in five districts in the Upper East Region are benefiting from food security and livelihood interventions under the Resilient and Sustainable Livelihoods Transformation (RESULT) project.

The districts are Bongo, Talensi, Nabdam and Kassena Nankana West, as well as the Kassena Nankana municipality.

The six-year project is being funded by the Canadian Government at a cost of 19 million Canadian dollars through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and the Canadian Feed The Children (CFTC) and the Association of Church-Based Development NGOs (ACDEP).

Farmers under the project are being assisted in crop and livestock production, aquaculture, dry season farming and income-generating activities.

Speaking at a regional project consultative meeting in Bolgatanga, the RESULT Project Director, Ms Gail Motsi, said the project was designed to increase and diversify agricultural produc