Provide early maturing seeds to farmers in Upper East Region – Climate Alternative Advocates

The Regional Director for Climate Alternative Advocates, Mr. Agambila Nyaaba, is urgently calling on the Ministry of Agriculture to provide early-maturing seeds to farmers in the Upper East Region in response to the region’s changing climate.

Mr. Agambila explained that the rains are coming late and leaving early, and that this is affecting agriculture. He said, “There is nothing we can do about climate change, but we can adapt to it.”

During a meeting held at Tindonmolga, a suburb of Bolgatanga, Tindan Ayeta Ayinbire expressed his disappointment with the current system. He said that all seven types of maize seeds sold to farmers do not produce seeds for the next season.

Mr. Ayinbire also expressed concerns about an impending food crisis due to the safety of hybrid seeds. He called on the government to provide farmers with seeds that can produce grains for consumption and allow them to save seeds for future planting, rather than relying on the same hybrid seed sellers every season.

Mr. Agambila Nyaaba added that the situation is similar to bereavement, saying, “We can live without COVID-19, but we cannot live without climate change.”

He further added that the most serious problems caused by climate change in the Upper East Region are flooding, which leads to cholera, malaria, and loss of food grain, among others. Therefore, community members must develop a plan to survive these problems.

The Regional Organizer for the Climate Alternative Advocates, Mr. Dorzie John Baptist noted that “temperature rise leads to our dams and rivers drying up quickly which makes animals travel distances in search of water to drink and are either stolen or lost.”

To address this situation, Mr. Dorzie advocated tree planting along the banks of the dams and rivers as “this controls erosion, which eventually causes silting of our dams”.

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