{"id":163467,"date":"2015-10-30T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=163467"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:36:08","slug":"agriculture-declining-in-tamale-metropolis-urbanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/agriculture-declining-in-tamale-metropolis-urbanet\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture declining in Tamale Metropolis – URBANET"},"content":{"rendered":"
Agriculture, which is the economic mainstay of most people in the Northern Region, is declining in the Tamale Metropolitan Area.<\/p>\n
A policy narrative produced by a group of stakeholders who convened in early 2015 in Tamale, said rapid urbanization is affecting urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Tamale Metropolitan area.<\/p>\n
One of the most critical concerns captured in the report is the decrease in available lands as chiefs prefer to sell plots to private developers.<\/p>\n
The report recommended that institutional advocacy for land reform could be used as a solution to the sale of farm\u00a0lands to private developers.<\/p>\n