The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is has launch a Post-Flood Recovery Programme at Kogle, avillage in the Lawra District, to support over 6,000 families who were adversely affected by the floods of 2010.
The programme focuses on supporting about 6,000 families who lost crops and livelihoods during the recent floods of 2010. These comprise approximately 2,500 families in Northern Region, 1,200 in Upper East and Upper West Regions, 500 families each in the Northern Brong-Ahafo and Northern Volta Regions.
The basic support package includes a fertilizer allocation to allow the farmers to cultivate at least 2 acres per family, plus improved maize seeds for at least 2 acres of farmland. SADA, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture will provide technical guidance and training for the farmers to undertake their farming in a manner that will assure a reasonably good yield. NADMO, WFP and programme technical staff from the Regional Economic Planning Units will monitor implementation to ensure that farmers relocate to higher ground, to avoid the flooding calamities of 2010.
The Flood Recovery Programme is a follow up to an initiative started by UNDP and the World Food Programme as far back as 2009. The programme has already supported several thousand farmers in the SADA area. In October 2010, the Office of the Vice-President in collaboration with SADA, the affected District Assemblies, National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), the UNDP, the World Food Programme (WFP) and other development partners, responded to the flood situation in the North by providing emergency food and material assistance for about 25,000 persons affected by the floods. Subsequently, SADA was charged, as part of its first set of mandates, with the responsibility of carrying out a Post-Flood Recovery Programme for the affected farmers in the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone.
This farmer support programme is, therefore, part of a comprehensive package approved by the SADA Board during its second meeting in Wa in April 2011. The initiative includes providing fertilizer and improved seeds as assistance to farmers who lost all or part of their livelihoods during the floods. A housing rehabilitation programme is also expected to be designed and implemented, through a collaboration between the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), the Department of Rural Housing and UNDP.
Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Sulley Gariba, Policy Advisor on SADA re-affirmed the Authority’s commitment to address both the immediate and long-term needs for socio-economic transformation of the people of the affected areas. He indicated that this is only the beginning of a longer-term engagement, where farmers should soon be supported with improved techniques, technologies and market access for accelerated production of cereals and fruits year-round.
The programme focuses on supporting about 6,000 families who lost crops and livelihoods during the recent floods of 2010. These comprise approximately 2,500 families in Northern Region, 1,200 in Upper East and Upper West Regions, 500 families each in the Northern Brong-Ahafo and Northern Volta Regions.
The basic support package includes a fertilizer allocation to allow the farmers to cultivate at least 2 acres per family, plus improved maize seeds for at least 2 acres of farmland. SADA, through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture will provide technical guidance and training for the farmers to undertake their farming in a manner that will assure a reasonably good yield. NADMO, WFP and programme technical staff from the Regional Economic Planning Units will monitor implementation to ensure that farmers relocate to higher ground, to avoid the flooding calamities of 2010.
The Flood Recovery Programme is a follow up to an initiative started by UNDP and the World Food Programme as far back as 2009. The programme has already supported several thousand farmers in the SADA area. In October 2010, the Office of the Vice-President in collaboration with SADA, the affected District Assemblies, National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), the UNDP, the World Food Programme (WFP) and other development partners, responded to the flood situation in the North by providing emergency food and material assistance for about 25,000 persons affected by the floods. Subsequently, SADA was charged, as part of its first set of mandates, with the responsibility of carrying out a Post-Flood Recovery Programme for the affected farmers in the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone.
This farmer support programme is, therefore, part of a comprehensive package approved by the SADA Board during its second meeting in Wa in April 2011. The initiative includes providing fertilizer and improved seeds as assistance to farmers who lost all or part of their livelihoods during the floods. A housing rehabilitation programme is also expected to be designed and implemented, through a collaboration between the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), the Department of Rural Housing and UNDP.
Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Sulley Gariba, Policy Advisor on SADA re-affirmed the Authority’s commitment to address both the immediate and long-term needs for socio-economic transformation of the people of the affected areas. He indicated that this is only the beginning of a longer-term engagement, where farmers should soon be supported with improved techniques, technologies and market access for accelerated production of cereals and fruits year-round.
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