According to him, admitting the abrogating media advantage the programme received, it is a applicable adventure that is account a relook
"Guinea fowl meat is acceptable more popular, decidedly in the southern regions. If we can access guinea fowl production, it would advice the incomes of abounding families because it's a activity account attractive at again," he said during a media appointment in Bolga on August 7
John Mahama anecdotal the affairs arch to the rumour that birds produced beneath the programme flew to neighbouring Burkina Faso
"A company asked a caretaker about the abode of the guinea fowls, and the caretaker jokingly replied that they had aureate to Burkina Faso with the alteration seasons. The animadversion was taken out of ambience and advance like wildfire," Mr Mahama explained
He acclaimed that the media reportage that the guinea fowls had absolutely migrated to Burkina Faso, resulted in the activity actuality admired as a failure
"The truth, however, was far from it. Guinea fowls are not afoot birds, and the project's ambition was never to actualize a comedy of bags of birds in one place," he said
Mr Mahama antiseptic that the guinea fowl activity was absolutely advised to enhance the livelihoods of rural farmers in the arctic regions by announcement the assembly of the birds
The initiative, he said, was aimed to bear eggs and administer day-old breed to farmers, who would again accession them for meat
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