Minister visit his maize farm at the village l coconutnews24

   The upper west regional deputy minister Hon. Amidu Chinnia visited his maize farm yesterday at his village to see the level of crop growth in this farm and how his farm have been free from crop pets, He visited the farm in the mid hours of yesterday at Nabugubelle where he leaved and schooled in the Sissala East district. This not the first time the deputy minister had to visit his farm in the year, is a regular thing he does more often because of the value he attached to the farm. He has since visited home almost every week end and also to attend to funerals and other social gathering in the district since his progression to the top from the district.
    This information about his visit to His farm was spotted on his official Facebook handle on social media, he said and I " This is the beauty for the planting for foods and jobs, I was at my maize farm at Nabugubelle ". He attributed his happiness to His farm base on government's new policy on planting for foods and jobs, is one of the flagship programs the President have brought to help poor farmers in the local and urban areas who could not engage in large scale farming to sustain themselves with. The deputy minister as we speak have had chance to advise the youth to take up farming as a profession since that could be a source of livelihood to some of them, he is a big time farmer and will not stop farming because of where he is now.
    So if the deputy minister can travel all the way from the regional capital to visit his farm in his village, what are you sitting there doing? Most people think farming is for poor people, complete misconception from them. Now farming is even for the rich to engage in, so let the youth in the Sissala area take up farming very seriously since is our old thing. It can help raise some revenue for most to start something on their own, let look at the deputy minister and also know that no matter where you are and you are still willing to farm you will farm.
Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche :  Freelance journalist

MEDA an international NGO support some selected women in Sissala East - A Citizen concerned revealed

   An international award winning NGO called MEDA supported both men and women with farm equipment and clothing, this items included; spray machines, working boot, gloves and other protective cloths for their farm work. These people were selected from Lilixia in Sissala East for the farm equipment and other farm protectors, this not all for the year, this not the beginning too but the institution has done this before and will continue to do such things for the people of the district. Who knows your community or my mine could be next in this distribution, this communities received this item for their hard work towards farming in the district.
   The officer from MEDA who handed over the items told the beneficiaries to take good and sustainable care of them to last longer for many years, he said the items needed much concentration to stay long. He was however fast to add that , some beneficiaries take this items and sell them for money, defeating the purpose for the distribution. He said they will monitor them to see how they have taken good care of them and those that have sold out their their equipment for personal benefits.
   A member from the community, called Madam Haluki on behalf of the community thanked the organization for their kind gesture and also promised them that they will make good use of the items given to them.
Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche. : Freelance journalist

FALL ARMY WORMS TRAUMATIZING FARMERS IN SISSALA EAST

    This social canker have been with this farmers for months since the beginning of the farming season, the fall army worms are small tinny worms that target maize crops and other economic crops in the region. This army worms are now the most challenging problems farmers face in the region. The challenge is however reported and announced by most media and TV stations in Ghana, is on Facebook, whatssap and on most blogs but the government is yet to officially say something about how they will assist the region to fight the infection.
   On a small scale, coconutnews24 spoke to Mr. Munkailu Ali Bipuah who is a farmer at Tarsor. He said ,they are suffering from this worms but have nothing to do about the situation, he also narrated that some of the farmers in Tarsor use OMO( SO KLEAN) to prevent or to treat this illness of the crops. Mr. Munkailu said he was appealing to the government to come to their aid since farming is their only source livelihood. coconutnews24 had to follow Mr. Munkailu to his farm to see the real picture of how this worms have destroyed their crops. It was self explanatory when the team got there.
    Government will have to do something to reduce the destruction on their crops.
Writer : Citizen Bashiru Jinapor
Niche. : Freelance Journalist