From TV3 to Action: John Dumelo intervenes in Zaare irrigation crisis

Описание: John Dumelo Assures pepper farmers in Zaare irrigation farms of government intervention to address their plights after TV3 story

The deputy Agriculture minister John Dumelo has assured pepper farmers at Zaare irrigation farms in the Bolgatanga Municipality of government's intervention on ready market, value addition and support towards ending post-harvest losses as well as discouraging importation of vegetables from Burkina Faso

The deputy minister's visit comes less than 24 hours of TV3's Report on the plight of farmers whose ripe pepper farms are going bad.

Our Upper East Regional correspondent Tanko Mohammed Rabiu was with the deputy minister and files this report.

The deputy Agriculture minister upon arrival in Bolgatanga Municipality, was taken on a tour of the Vea Dam project by the municipal Chief Executive for Bolgatanga Roland Atanga Ayoo to appreciate the irrigation farming taking place in the enclave.

These canals are under reconstruction while others are still desilted, thus, preventing water from flowing to the farms.

At the pepper farms in Zaare, the farmers expressed their disappointment over the lack of ready market for their Produce and the lack of water to the farms.

In response, deputy Agriculture minister John Dumelo has sympathized with the farmers and assured them of government's full intervention on their plights

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