A destructive bushfire has razed down another yam barn at KpareKpare, a farming community in the Krachi East Municipality of the Oti Region, leaving farmers in the area counting their losses.
The deadly incident which happened on Monday, February 04, 2025, has brought the total number of yam barns destroyed by bush fires in the electoral area to five in recent weeks.
The latest fire outbreak has sparked widespread concerns among farmers in the area, who are appealing through the Ministry of Agriculture, government and other stakeholders to come to their aid.
Eric Akwasi Asumadu, a farmer who lost his entire yam stock to the fire, told the Ghana News Agency that, he finds it difficult to recover from this loss and appealed to the authorities to come to his aid.
