Rice Farmers at Akuse in the Lower Manya Krobo District and Asutsuare in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region, have called on the government to support them with machinery and other farming equipment in order to help increase farming production.
According to them, despite Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) interventions through the ongoing 'Ghana Rice Production Improvement Project (GRIP),' cost of labour was causing low yields. "The machinery available on the scheme now is very inadequate.
So when it is time for you to harvest and you don't have the machinery enough for your activities, it means that it is going to affect your rice.
There are times when you don't harvest on time, the rice is over dry and broken when being milled." "Sometimes we harvest and the dry floors are not available leaving the rice to get mouldy in the suck, all these reduce the quality of the rice that is being produced," an Agronomist at Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA), Mr Frank Kedzi, stated.
