The Ghana Mission Director of USAID, Andrew Karas, is impressed with rural women in Northern Ghana for their adoption of the Feed the Future Ghana Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Project (AgNRM), which seeks to improve their livelihood.
Andrew Karas expressed his delight when he visited some of the USAID funded project sites at the Dorimon community in the Wa West district of the Upper West Region.
The visit offered him the opportunity to interact with most of the beneficiaries mainly women.
He paid a courtesy call on the Dorimon paramount chief, Naa Sohimwininye Danaa Gori II, who thanked the USAID for implementing the project within his traditional area.
The chief narrated that, the project has since its implementation improved the livelihood of his people whose economic mainstay is rural agriculture.
Mr. Karas praised the chief and his subjects for their teamwork which he said contributed to the AgNRM project’s achievements.
He visited Alima Sulemana, a smallholder farmer who took advantage of the AgNRM project to stimulate agribusiness.
According to Alima Sulemana, the project aided her to adopt new technologies to improve soil fertility on her farmland.
“Thanks to USAID, I now have a secured plot of land for household gardening. I am currently nursing moringa seedlings with plans to grow vegetables,” remarked Alima.
“The new technologies are helping to improve the fertility of the soil so that my crops can grow well” said another beneficiary.
Also, Sauba Iddrisu said the project improved their expertise on the productive use of the moringa plant to boost their incomes.
“We are happy to have received the training that will help us improve upon the various uses of the moringa plant. We can now process moringa into oil, ointment, liquid and bar soaps to improve our sources of income and take care of our needs.”
About 170 women in the Dorimon community have been trained on the use of improved cook stove (InStove technology) to enable them advance from the orthodox practice of processing shea products.
As a member of the Dorimon CREMA group, Faustina Sanbor expressed her joy, saying, “The stove is easy to set up with very little fire wood. When the shea is boiling, we can get very close to the stove without feeling any heat. This stove is very safe, clean and more convenient as compared to the traditional stove.”
The U. S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, AgNRM, aims to alleviate poverty in rural communities through increased incomes from natural resource products such as shea and moringa; improve food and nutrition security; increased farmer and community security/access to land and natural resources, and strengthen environmental stewardship.
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