Government to pilot 50 Farmer Service Centres in first year
The government is set to pilot 50 Farmer Service Centres across selected districts in the country in the first year of implementing its flagship Feed Ghana programme under the Agriculture for Economic Transformation agenda.
Mr Peter Nuhu, Coordinator of the Farmer Service Centres, who disclosed this on the sidelines of a stakeholder engagement in Bolgatanga, said the number of centres would increase in subsequent years, with the goal of achieving full district coverage by the end of 2028.
“We ensured every region is represented, and within each region, we looked at historical data on agricultural production to determine which districts are most active agriculturally,” he said.
“In the Upper East Region, for instance, the top two or three agriculturally productive districts will be...