The Acting CEO of the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA), Richard Oppong-Boateng, has announced that GIDA aims to construct 100 dams annually to combat the severe drought affecting Northern Ghana and other parts of the country. The region has been without rain for over two months, resulting in widespread crop failure and raising serious concerns about food security. In an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show on Tuesday, August 20, Oppong-Boateng underscored the government's commitment to investing in irrigation infrastructure as a key strategy to mitigate the impacts of drought. He highlighted that significant irrigation projects are already underway, including a major expansion in the Afram Plains, which is expected to bolster agricultural resilience in the affected regions. "For the past four or five years, we have seen massive irrigation infrastructure going on in the country. When you go to Afram Plains we have opened up irrigation projects that are going to add about 500 hectares to our project. "When you go to the north we are doing a lot and I am sure by the next three or four years, on average every year we are targeting about 100 dams to be constructed so that at least if it doesn't rain for two or three years, we will still have a lot of water to support our smallholder farmers and commercial farmers," he stated.