A Professor of agriculture and natural resource has advocated a policy to encourage smallholder farmers to prioritise the use of organic manure over the inorganic fertiliser.
This, he said, would reduce the heavy importation of the inorganic fertiliser into the country, which has been costing Ghana millions of dollars every cropping season and help tackle the hunger issue among the rural folk. • Professor David Millar He disclosed that the world was clamouring for organic food since its health benefits to the individual were glaring, stressing that the proposed initiative could be piloted in the five northern regions of the country, which are the worst-hit in terms of drought, to test its feasibility and viability.
Professor David Millar, president of the Millar Open University, said this in an exclusive interview with The Ghanaian Times in Bolgatanga, the capital of the Upper East Region.
He said there was the need for an organic fertiliser subsidy programme, which must be a key government policy to reduce production cost while boosting crop production and incomes of farmers.
