{"id":315240,"date":"2017-05-01T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315240"},"modified":"2017-05-01T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:00:36","slug":"peasant-farmers-inaugurate-watchdog-cttee-to-curb-fertilizer-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/peasant-farmers-inaugurate-watchdog-cttee-to-curb-fertilizer-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Peasant Farmers inaugurate watchdog c’ttee to curb fertilizer smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), has inaugurated fertilizer security watchdog committees in all border towns across the country to help curb the menace of smuggling the commodity across neighboring countries.<\/p>\n
The fertilizer watchdog committees will monitor the movement of subsidized fertilizers across neighboring countries and report such perpetrators to the security agencies for arrest and prosecution.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the National launch of the project\u00a0 “2017 PFAG fertilizer Watch Dogs” on Friday(28th April,2017) at the Paga border in the Upper East Region, Regional Coordinator of PFAG, Mrs. Victoria Adongo, said the move was to help protect the tax payer’s money and compliment government’s efforts of making subsidized fertilizer accessible to farmers.<\/p>\n