Women Smallhoder Farmers in Talensi Nabdam Meet

 

The formation of Smallholder women farmers’ network, SWFN, in the Nabdam and Talensi districts of the Upper East Region has jointly held its maiden meeting at the Catholic Social centre in Bolgatanga.

The formation of the Network was facilitated by Action Aid Ghana AAG in December 2017.  The aim of the Network is to empower them to advocate for women smallholder farmers in the two districts to take advantage of government agriculture interventions.

Some of these interventions include the Planting for Food and Jobs PFJ Programme, One District, One Village, One Dam and the One District, One Factory.

The Executive Committee Members of the Smallholder women farmers’ network, Hilary Adongo, from the two beneficiary districts, took time to acquaint themselves with the PFJ policy and planned activities for this year’s crop season.

The Programme Manager of AAG in charge of Upper East Region, Mr. Alhassan Sulemana, assured the network of AAG’s continued support for the network and charged the Executive Committee to work hard to make the network a force to reckon with.

The Programme Officer of AAG with the oversight responsibility over the network, Ms Rebecca Kumi challenged the women farmers to be proactive and make the network their own and mobilize more women to come on board.

The Upper East Regional focal person of the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana Reverend John Akaribo, and the Executive Director of the Restorative Seed Society, Mr. Hillary Adongo are providing technical support to the Executive Committee of the Network whilst AAG provides funding support.

The Executive Committee Members of the Network are made up of a total of 16 women from both Talensi and Nabdam districts.

Story by GBC’s Emmanuel Akayetis