Francis Dabre Davan
Bolgatanga – In Bolgatanga, capital of the Upper East region, his two-day workshop aimed at helping smallholder farmers adapted the latest technology to improve yields concluded last Wednesday.

Organized by Feed the Future Ghana Market Systems and Resilience (MSR) Activity, the event broughttogetherparticipants from private and public institutions for dialogue on increasing agricultural policy implementation.

Samson Konlan, leader of the enabling team for the environment, said at a forum attended by about 60participants fromvarious private and public institutions in the region that the project will allow contract growers to provide quality productsto small farmers. said it is geared to build its capacity to deliver high quality services.

Mr Conran said:

He said MSR’s work was done to boost the positive outcomes of decommissioned projects like USAID advance 1 and 2,which he said were five-year projects that will help commercialize smallholder farmers. It added that it was working“intentionally” to stimulate profitability.

This, he said, would enable them to access ready market for their produce, as it was the mandate of theproject to assistfarmers, espe­cially those selected by the Zone of Influence (ZOI), with the needed financialservices, explaining, “Wewant to improve the system by working on what already exists to strengthenbusiness”.

The Feed the Future MSR Activity is a five-year USAID funded activity to increase inclusive agriculture-ledeconomicgrowth in northern Ghana.

The project which leveraged over a decade of experience linking smallholder farmers to markets, inputs and services in Ghana, had also played an undisputable role in strengthening commercial rela­tionships between markets actors, improving rural entrepreneurship ecosystem to enable greater market participation, especially for women and youth.

Mr Konlan appealed to stake­holders, especially the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), the Food andDrugsAuthority (FDA), the Ghana Standards Authority, among other regulatory authorities, to do well tosupport the organisa­tion implement the MSR project, since it would inure to the benefit of the rural farmer.

The project, he said, if fully implemented would in no doubt tackle the issue of difficulties in commercialisingagriculturein the northern part of Ghana, and also resolve the hunger phenomenon amongst the people fromthe un­derservedcommunities. Eric Sunu, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), saidPublic-Private Dialogue (PPD)helps build mutual relationships and trust among stakeholders and drive agribusiness market performance. rice field.

In his reflective view, this will also catalyze action among market players to create an enhanced environment to foster inclusive agriculture-led economic growth in northern Ghana. .