Initiative to transfer technology to rice farmers launched

An initiative to equip rice farmers in the three northern regions with new technologies to increase yields has been launched.

In furtherance of that, a new equipment, known as briquetting machine, has successfully been installed and piloted on some irrigation farms in the Northern and Upper East regions.

In all, about 4,000 farmers in the area are expected to benefit from the four-year programme.

The project forms part of the Feed the Future (FTF) initiative, a US government global hunger and food security programme which is funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under its Agriculture Technology Transfer (ATT) project.

 It is dubbed the ‘FTF-USAID-ATT’.

Interaction with stakeholders and farmers.

Interacting with stakeholders and farmers at the launch in Tamale, the Deputy Director of the Irrigation Company of the Upper East Region (ICOUR), Mr Sebastian Bagina, said ICOUR was one of the 17 implem