Ghana government urged to prioritise irrigation investment 

Dr Charles Nyaaba, the Chief Executive Officer of the Upper East Farmers’ Cooperative Credit Union, has called on the Government to make strategic He described such a move as the most critical intervention needed to change the face of the agriculture sector and ensure food security, particularly across Northern Ghana.

He said the changing rainfall pattern caused by climate change had shortened the farming season in northern Ghana, especially in the Upper East Region, making rain-fed agriculture increasingly unreliable and threatening the livelihoods of thousands of smallholder farmers.

He explained that irrigation should be the foremost priority in agricultural development, ahead of other interventions and that water remained the biggest constraint to farming in the Upper East Region.