The director of the National Disaster Management Organizations NADMO at Biakoye district in the Oti region Mr. Henry Danso has expressed concern over how the spillage has submerged hundreds of farmlands in the region.
Speaking on Plan B FM’s morning show NKOSUONSEM hosted by Nana Yaw Abrompah, the NADMO director said farmers are appealing to them to support them to venture into dry season farming to fend for their families.
He said, a few days after this year’s spillage, hundreds of farmlands were submerged by the floodwaters destroying different household crops, especially maize, and vegetables such as groundnuts, and yellow melons. And this will affect them because they have nothing to feed on during the dry season.
He said the some of the farmers told them that they planted earlier, but the rain came late, but even with what we planted later, the spillage has destroyed everything, worsening our poverty situation.
“The farmers have appealed to NADMO to support them with farm inputs and fertilizers to enable them to undertake dry-season farming to fend for their families,but the issue is, means of transport is a problem for we the NADMO in the district as we are still attending to victims of the spillage, we are not finding it easy at all”. He stressed.
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