Tag: Rice farms
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Volta Region: 600 Rice farmers in Ketu South affected by drought
Some 600 farmers at Klenomadzi and Devego, near Dzodze in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region, have lost their vast rice farms to drought. In all, 700 acres of rice farms have dried up due to severe weather conditions in the area. The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), has estimated the damage at…
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Bush fires ravage rice farms in northern regions
Some rice farmers in Northern parts of the country are counting their losses as bush fire ravages hundreds 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…