GRi Newsreel Ghana 31 - 03 - 2001
Extension officer learn more on Root and Tuber Programme
Food vendors
advised to protect wares
50 rendered
homeless by rainstorm
Extension officer learn more on Root and
Tuber Programme
Wenchi (Brong Ahafo) 31 March 2001
A two-day workshop on Root and Tuber Improvement Programme for Agricultural Extension Agents (AEAS) has ended at Wenchi.
The workshop organised in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), brought together some 25 participants to update their knowledge about multiplication and distribution of improved materials, community support and mobilisation for effective access to improved planting materials, and community level multiplication strategies.
Mr K. Asante-Krobea, Wenchi District Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, said the programme, which would last for six years would benefit an estimated 750,000 resource-poor, subsistence-oriented farmers countrywide.
He said since root and tuber crops are largely grown by the poorest segment of the rural population, improvement in its production systems would have direct and positive effect on their income status.
He said Wenchi District has been targeted to cultivate 250 hectares of improved cassava varieties.
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Food vendors
advised to protect wares
Accra (Greater Accra) 31 March
2001
A seminar to sensitise butchers
and other food vendors and traders on basic hygiene ended at the Makola Market
in Accra on Thursday.
The day-long seminar was organised
by the Accra Metropolitan Health Department and the World Health Organisation
(WHO) under the Market Food Vendor Sensitisation Education programme of WHO.
It drew participants from five
major markets in the Accra Metropolis - Makola, Nii Boye Town, Salaga and
Agbogbloshie.
The Assistant Chief Environmental Health
Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mr Mark Anthony Adotey, said
the seminar shows the recognition government accords the role that food vendors
play in public health care.
Mr Adotey said studies have
revealed that diseases like tuberculosis, cholera and typhoid have become
frequent due to lack of proper food preservation both in the home and public
places.
He said selling or eating
unwholesome food poses serious health hazards and advised cooked food sellers
to protect their wares against contamination from flies and dust.
The Project Co-ordinator of the
Accra Metropolitan Environmental Health Initiative, Mrs Lynda Joana Osafo, said
her outfit has drawn up a programme to sensitise the public to adapt to changes
in food preservation.
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50 rendered
homeless by rainstorm
Adeiso (Eastern Region) 31 March
2001
Rainstorm destroyed 15 houses and
made 50 people homeless at Domponiase, a farming community near Adeiso in the
West Akim District on Thursday.
Among the affected buildings was
the L/A Junior Secondary School whose furniture and textbooks were also
destroyed.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency, Mr
Amoah Ayisi, Assemblyman for the area and Nana Obuobi Ababio II, the chief said
some farms were also destroyed.
This is the second time the area
has experienced storms in recent time. The first one destroyed the local
Presbyterian Primary School and a number of buildings.
Nana Ababio appealed to the
district assembly, NADMO and non-governmental organisations for relief aid.
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