USAID: Women in Agriculture Platform launched in Upper East

In Borgang Tanga the "East Asian Women Agricultural Platform" was launched to enable agricultural women to effectively engage with stakeholders and tackle their concerns.

The platform consists of women from Bolgatanga, Bawku and Kassena-Nankana, Talensi, Nabdam, Bongo and Bawku West.

Formation of the platform is part of the 5-year North Ghana Governance (NGGA) project which is carried out at 28 locations in North, Upper East, Upper West.

Yoshif Alabira Abubakari, Regional Project Officer for NGGA, in dialogue with the media, gives women a common opinion on tackling agricultural issues such as agricultural access, packaging and marketing, credit facilities etc. He said that he aims to be.

It will also be the point of gathering to identify the challenges facing the agricultural sector and to create a communication plan that will attract stakeholders' attention to their needs.

Abubakari said the NGGA is being implemented by a coalition of non-governmental organizations including CARE International Ghana, Action Support Ghana, SEND Ghana and the West African Peace Building Network (WANEP-Ghana). Key stakeholders in the process of decentralization of agricultural development at the regional level

The agricultural program funded by the United States Agency for International Development, known as Northern Ghana Governance (NGGA), addresses these challenges faced by women in agriculture and promotes agricultural platform women in the North, Southeast Asia and its regions, as well as the Upper West (WAP ). Region

Women in Ghana are mainly contributing to agricultural production, processing and marketing. North Ghana Governance (NGGA), a project funded by the United States International Development Agency to give women agricultural power, promoted the establishment of agricultural infrastructure (WAP) in northern Ghana, Upper West, Upper East. Here, the WAP regional leader who participated in the 7th Pre-Season Plan and Web Forum was held in Tamale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVTdyIDk3E&feature=youtu.be The agricultural program funded by USAID is designed to address these challenges faced by women in agriculture and to strengthen Northern Ghana governance It is called a campaign (NGGA). At the regional and regional levels of agricultural infrastructure (WAP) in northern, upper east and upper west

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