By: Ama Gyamfuah
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, has announced that agriculture will be his top priority if elected President. He pledged to collaborate with countries like Brazil and China, recognized for their high crop productivity, to adopt their best practices and technologies.
Dr. Bawumia vowed to set up District Agricultural Mechanisation Centres in farming districts, providing affordable equipment to enhance production. He made these remarks while visiting Sandem-Nab, Nab Azaksuk Azantilow, the Paramount Chief of the Builsa Traditional Area in the Upper East Region, during his campaign tour. “Agriculture is going to be my number one priority. We will make sure that we have all the different pillars in place for farmers. “I want to bring in the best practices from countries like Brazil and China that have higher productivity in crops such as maize and rice.
We want to also learn from them to adopt some of those technologies that are giving them two or three times the yields per acre that we are doing.
“I want Ghana to move away from chemical fertilizers for our soil to lime. Lime is the way forward. We have limestone in Ghana and it is much cheaper than the fertilizer, and we want to help the farmers with this new soil fertility treatment through lime,” he added.
