Kintampo Co-operative Yam Producers And Marketing Society Ltd Exposes Ghana’s Yam Production At Int’l Scene.
Information reaches Opera News website from Kintampo in the Bono East Region of Ghana indicates that the area has become a leading center in yam production where the neighborhood countries find it appropriate to export food produce into their countries for consumption.
A visit to the area on fact finding mission have it that number of commercial trucks from Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, Ivory Coast among other neighborhood countries land at Kintampo daily to cart food items, notably yams to their homelands to feed their citizens.
From the exclusive interview our Content writer, King Amoah had with the Public Relations Officer of the Kintampo Co-operative Yam Producers And Marketing Society Ltd, Mr John Njonam on behalf of the Society’s Queenmother, Nana Afia Amea, the queenmother described yam production in the area as a laudable carrier.
Nana Afia Amea observed that since the establishment of the Society some years back, the outfit has helped solved number of unemployment challenges that confront the citizens of the region and beyond.
She said asides the neighborhood countries turning the area into their main source of food supply and financial generation, all the regions in the country also actively do businesses at Kintampo to help solve food shortages in the country.
As a centre of food supply Nana Afia Amea explained that farmer in the area lacks farmlands to advance their activities.
Stressing that fulani residents have also been scaring them from using their small portions of lands to farm.
Nana Afia Amea indicated that whilst landowners have been selling their lands to people for other business ventures, the fulani’s also seize and occupy their lands amidst threats.
According to her if farmers get enough lands to operate part of the unemployment challenges would be solved since through education and sensitization drive from her outfit, more youth have developed interest in farming to make earns meet.
Whilst calling for government intervention in addition to logistics support for the farmers to do more to curb hunger situation in the country, the queenmother further charged government to delegate its representatives to the area and probe scenes for urgent attention.
