By Solace DORNO
The Millennium Development Authority, (MiDA) would soon review its operations to ensure that beneficiaries comply with the conditions for their assistance.
According to MIDA, the authority has given out an amount of GH¢20 million to 30,000 small-holder farmers to improve upon their production levels.
However, the authority feared the project could collapse if the farmers refused to pay back the loans received hence the need for serious efforts to retrieve all the money.
For almost three years, MiDA has been executing a number of poverty reduction projects under the Millennium Challenge Compact, signed between the government of Ghana and the US Millennium Development Corporation.
The Chief Operations Officer of the Authority, Mathew Amoah, noted that the support given to farmers is not a grant and has cautioned the beneficiary farmers.
He said the beneficiary farmers located within the three intervention zones, made up of the Northern, Afram Plains and Southern area, with a total of 30 districts participating.
In addition, contracts have been signed for consultancy works for the siting of 16 business centers in some of the districts to provide ready market for farm produce by March, next year, while 5,000 hectares of crop farms are also to be cultivated under irrigation.
The Millennium Development Authority, (MiDA) would soon review its operations to ensure that beneficiaries comply with the conditions for their assistance.
According to MIDA, the authority has given out an amount of GH¢20 million to 30,000 small-holder farmers to improve upon their production levels.
However, the authority feared the project could collapse if the farmers refused to pay back the loans received hence the need for serious efforts to retrieve all the money.
For almost three years, MiDA has been executing a number of poverty reduction projects under the Millennium Challenge Compact, signed between the government of Ghana and the US Millennium Development Corporation.
The Chief Operations Officer of the Authority, Mathew Amoah, noted that the support given to farmers is not a grant and has cautioned the beneficiary farmers.
He said the beneficiary farmers located within the three intervention zones, made up of the Northern, Afram Plains and Southern area, with a total of 30 districts participating.
In addition, contracts have been signed for consultancy works for the siting of 16 business centers in some of the districts to provide ready market for farm produce by March, next year, while 5,000 hectares of crop farms are also to be cultivated under irrigation.
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