The Ghana Agricultural Sector
Investment Programme (GASIP) has urged Ghanaians, especially people of the
Savanna belt, to make bushfire fighting a collective responsibility.
This came to light during an exclusive
interview with the Climate Change Adaptation Manager GASIP, Dr. Edmund Kyei
Akoto-Danso, by our gbcuraradio.com Correspondent in Bolgatanga in the wake of
the harmattan season.
Dr. Akoto-Danso said, GASIP pride in Conservation
Agriculture, which seeks to promote maintenance of a permanent soil cover,
minimum soil disturbance, and diversification of plant species adding that our
fight against bush fires is paramount on daily basis.
It is in line with this he said, GASIP is calling all partners, especially
you, to do the little one can,
through Community-Based Groups Sensitization Schools, Churches, Mosques, Market
ground, and radio sensitization, leading farmers and volunteers to create fire
belts around their farmlands, formation of volunteer guards, to help in the
crusade against bush fires.
Dr. Akoto-Danso stated that it is key
that everyone must first understand the major causes of bush fires, before
talking about curbing or managing them.
He indicated that the actions or
inactions of some groups of people such as herdsmen, farmers, hunters, and
children are some of the major causes of bush fires. Dr. Akoto-Danso added that
what he has gathered throughout his operational areas in the northern part of
Ghana is that, travelling through Kintampo to Page from November upwards is
often engulfed with fire not only by the roadside but even in the hinterland.
It is therefore imperative he said that
all and sundry must contribute their quota so that together we can help fight
against bush fires and conserve our land
for green Agriculture and for posterity.
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