From Peace FM (Ghana): "Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the 2012 vice presidential candidate of the [center-right] New Patriotic Party, has noted that it
would be important for Ghana to learn significant lessons from
neighboring Burkina Faso on transforming and boosting our agriculture,
particularly in Northern Ghana, and pledged that the Nana Akufo-Addo
administration would aggressively focus on agriculture in the North,
with the ultimate aim of making Northern Ghana the bread basket for
Ghana and the sub-region."
Northern Ghana has many ethnic minorities, many Muslim and is politically left. It has economically lagged the rest of the country, and also been a tough region for the center-right and ethnic-Akan-dominated New Patriotic Party to crack. Dr. Bawumia, a Muslim who is an economist by trade, has more to say: "The NPP vice presidential
candidate said that constructing the necessary irrigation facilities for
farmers through the development of dams, boreholes and harnessing our
rivers in that direction would be a very key component of the
agriculture agenda under the NPP. He bemoaned the continuous
reliance on rainfall for agriculture, adding that it was about time that
Ghana ended its over reliance on rain-fed agriculture as it affects
production and makes agricultural production too unpredictable."
Mahamudu Bawumia: "Ghana Must Learn From Burkina Faso In Order To Boost Its Agriculture Sector"
