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President Nana Akufo-Addo the irrigation project of the left bank of Kpong
of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at the end of its three-day tour in the Volta region, cut the turf for rehabilitation and the expansion of irrigation project from the left bank of Kpong to Torgome Volta Region
The country owning 1.9 million hectares of irrigable land, only 210 000 hectares are adequately developed, representing just over 11% of the total area potentially irrigable.
The project, in consultation with the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA), has selected for the rehabilitation and modernization of the Kpong Irrigation Project on the Left Bank (KLBIP), as well as e four other major public irrigation systems. The Kpong Left Bank Irrigation Project will refurbish, modernize and expand the existing gravity irrigation system from four hundred and fifty (450) hectares to two thousand (2,000) hectares. that is, more than four times.
Once the project is successfully completed, the water made available by the modernized and expanded dam should increase food production by increasing crop intensity through a more reliable water supply.
This supply, said the president, will be directly accessible to 17 communities of a total population of more than 6,000 people, with some of the benefits to neighboring communities, including increased income of small farmers, through dual irrigated cultivation, and the creation of jobs, in addition to the completion of various agribusiness enterprises in the value chain.
"On the basis of a complete badessment, nine (9) crops were selected for cultivation under the program: rice, corn, soybean, cowpea, pepper okra, cabbage, watermelon and butternut squash The irrigated area will be grown twice a year, resulting in a crop intensity of 200% and a total cultivated area of 4,000 hectares. per year, "he said.
Farmers holding a marketing authorization, the scheme will provide for large agricultural enterprises substantial technical, managerial and financial expertise and working capital
"This project will cost the Ghanaian taxpayer about twenty-five million five hundred and three thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars (USD 25,503,296). It is expected that the operation, maintenance and project management will be financed by users of irrigation water under the program, through the regular payment of irrigation fees. Noted President Akufo-Addo. encouraged the staff of the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority, the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project, the Consultant, the Entrepreneur, the Chiefs and Elders and the members of the beneficiary communities to continue playing the roles expected of them to ensure that the project is completed on schedule.
"We are determined to transform Ghana's agriculture and to break with the recent and dismal record of decline and negative growth in the sector, so we can justify the huge investments the government is making in the project, "he added.
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