{"id":244070,"date":"2016-08-30T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244070"},"modified":"2016-08-30T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T06:03:40","slug":"1-dam-1-village-simply-means-irrigation-systems-for-villages-hamid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/1-dam-1-village-simply-means-irrigation-systems-for-villages-hamid\/","title":{"rendered":"‘1 dam, 1 village’ simply means irrigation systems for villages – Hamid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mustapha Hamid, Spokesperson to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, has stated that party\u2019s ‘one village, one dam’ proposal for northern Ghana, is actually a promise to provide an irrigation system in all villages.<\/p>\n

The NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, had promised to establish\u00a0one dam in every village<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the northern part of the country to boost agriculture raising questions of the prudence and feasibility of such an endeavor.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”8E5IJ3MczYbqkctDcJj7EItQ9HVPLQ8b”]But Mustapha Hamid indicated that Nana Addo\u2019s words were not to be taken literally as he was communicating in a context that required the use of the word \u201cdam\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you come to this part of the country, their understanding of irrigation is a dam. Communications is a contextual matter; therefore he had to later on say one dam, one village because that is what the people understand,\u201d he explained on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Clarifying\u00a0his point with an analogy, he noted that, \u201cIt\u2019s like your grandmother in the village asking you to go and buy her Pepsodent. By Pepsodent, she doesn\u2019t mean Pepsodent so-called; but she just means toothpaste. So when I say mummy take Pepsodent, I may actually be giving her Colgate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irrigation projects will vary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mustapha Hamid\u00a0indicated that \u201cevery village will have an irrigation system that will irrigate their land. The details of it will come at the implementation stage.”<\/p>\n

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Mustapha Hamid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere are certain villages that per the population the density may not need full blown dams. Some can even be irrigated by a number of boreholes and pumping the water to the farms and so on so there are various options\u2026 so there are what you call receptacles, full blown dams, there are dugouts and there are bore holes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

1 dam, 1 village not feasible – Agric Minister\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Alhaji\u00a0Limuna Mohammed Muniru, however has little faith in Nana Addo’s promise despite stating the that “we can no longer depend on rain fed agriculture so it is important to look at issues of irrigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, he\u00a0simply said,\u00a0“I don\u2019t think this is very possible and I cannot support campaign promises, just promises that somebody wants to win elections with…\u00a0If he has decided to go and be promising dams to every village in the northern part of the country, I don\u2019t think that is feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alhaji Limuna Mohammed Muniru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alhaji Muniru further stated that, government was already engaging in some projects that would expand irrigation with a more calculated strategy.<\/p>\n

As an example, he noted that, “we\u00a0have put in legislation instruments that have been passed under the Water User\u2019s Association Act\u2026 that gives the Ghana Irrigation Development Authority the regulator and ownership of publicly funded irrigation schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said, \u201cwe have the Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project and they are pumping 3000 hectares rain water harvest irrigation scheme in an area called Nasia Nabogo and under this, 48 hectares have already been developed and 385 hectares under cultivation.\u201d<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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