Ghana's No1 Agric News Portal
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
  • About Us
  • Advertise With Us
  • Contact Us
  • News
  • Farmers’ Stories
  • Business
    • Events
    • Opportunities
  • Africa/World
  • Agri-Produce
    • Crops
    • Livestock
    • Wildlife
    • Aquaculture
  • More
    • Climate Change
    • Press Releases
    • Video
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Farmers’ Stories
  • Business
    • Events
    • Opportunities
  • Africa/World
  • Agri-Produce
    • Crops
    • Livestock
    • Wildlife
    • Aquaculture
  • More
    • Climate Change
    • Press Releases
    • Video
No Result
View All Result
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Bush Fire Destroys Rice Farms In Northern Regions

December 31, 2019
in News
0 0
50
Bush Fire Destroys Rice Farms In Northern Regions
0
SHARES
76
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Some rice farmers in Northern Ghana are counting their losses as bush fire ravages hundreds of acres of their rice farms.

The Upper East, Northern and North East Regions, are the worst-hit regions as affected farmers attributed the situation to lack of combine harvesters and a ready market for their produce.

The farmers who experienced rice gluts this year but struggled to find markets for their produce fear rice production for the next farming season will be greatly affected if the government does not intervene.




Over 400 hectares of rice farms along the Fumbisi-Gbedembilisi-Yagaba rice valleys were completely burned by the fires.

Rice farmers who are still harvesting their rice during this dry season are compelled to compete for limited combine harvesters at an exorbitant fee to harvest their rice or face losing their produce to bush fires.

Some affected farmers spoke of their ordeals to Citi News with one saying, “[my farm] covered 52 acres. I harvested only 15. The rest got burned because of a lack of combine harvesters in the system. I lost GHS25,000 to GHS27,000.”

Another farmer said: “my rice got burned on the 23 of December this month. 47 acres that was ready for harvest got burned through bush fires so you can imagine the amount of rice I am losing.”

Apart from losing their produce to bush fires, fortunate farmers who have harvested their produce have to sleep in the valleys to protect their heaped produce from bush fires whilst others are compelled to store their produce in homes due to lack of ready market for the produce.

The rice farmers’ debunked claims that neither the Buffer stock company limited nor rice millers have either bought all their rice or cannot get rice to purchase for milling purposes.

This situation caused for an emergency meeting of all rice farmers in the five regions of the North at Navrongo by the Peasant farmers association of Ghana (PFAG) to deliberate on recent challenges facing rice production in Northern Ghana and propose to government pragmatic solutions for redress.

Source: citinews

Tags: Bush fireNorthern Ghanarice farmers
Please login to join discussion
  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
I never used chemical fertilisers but I excelled – 2017 2nd National best farmer

Farming is the most Lucrative job – CEO of Okata Farms

June 6, 2020
Sugarcane farmers seek Gov’t support ahead of Sugar Factory reopening

Sugarcane farmers seek Gov’t support ahead of Sugar Factory reopening

June 12, 2020
The 2021 Livestock, Poultry, and Fisheries (LiPF) training trade show launched.

The 2021 Livestock, Poultry, and Fisheries (LiPF) training trade show launched.

March 6, 2021
2020 National Farmers’ Day Launched

2020 National Farmers’ Day Launched

September 29, 2020
The 2021 Livestock, Poultry, and Fisheries (LiPF) training trade show launched.

The 2021 Livestock, Poultry, and Fisheries (LiPF) training trade show launched.

12637
Resurgence of ‘fall armyworms’ – Farmers warned

Resurgence of ‘fall armyworms’ – Farmers warned

4425
New Agro Intervention Project Launched to Alleviate Poverty – Kintampo

New Agro Intervention Project Launched to Alleviate Poverty – Kintampo

3503
2020 National Farmers’ Day Launched

2020 National Farmers’ Day Launched

2587
Ethiopia: Irrigated farming helps farmers produce more, even when the rain is erratic.

reintroduce agricultural science as a subject in basic schools – Government urged

March 21, 2023
Catfish farming has a lot of prospects – Fish farmer

Catfish farming has a lot of prospects – Fish farmer

March 21, 2023
Feed the Future Innovation Lab identifies two cutting-edge technologies for scaling

Feed the Future Innovation Lab identifies two cutting-edge technologies for scaling

March 19, 2023
UDS students win grant to produce bread using Fonio

UDS students win grant to produce bread using Fonio

March 18, 2023
Agri Ghana Online

Agrighanaonline.com is your most authentic agricultural website. We bring you all agricultural news and information from Ghana and across the world.

  • News
  • Farmers’ Stories
  • Business
  • Africa/World
  • Agri-Produce
  • More

© 2020 Agri Ghana Online -Developed By Marvbel Koncepts.

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Farmers’ Stories
  • Business
    • Events
    • Opportunities
  • Africa/World
  • Agri-Produce
    • Crops
    • Livestock
    • Wildlife
    • Aquaculture
  • More
    • Climate Change
    • Press Releases
    • Video

© 2020 Agri Ghana Online -Developed By Marvbel Koncepts.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In