{"id":325995,"date":"2017-06-07T06:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=325995"},"modified":"2017-06-07T06:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:01:20","slug":"planting-for-food-jobs-commitment-fee-scaring-farmers-ngo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/planting-for-food-jobs-commitment-fee-scaring-farmers-ngo\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting for Food &#038; Jobs commitment fee scaring farmers &#8211; NGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Agricultural Policy\u00a0and\u00a0Analysis\u00a0(CAPMA) believes farmers are being scared away from enrolling on the Planting for Food and Jobs programme due to the commitment fees they have to pay before being granted inputs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, the Centre\u2019s head, Bright Demordzi, argued that, \u201cwe have to scrap the issue of commitment fee because if we are aware the farmers have the farmland and have prepared the land, then why the issue of commitment? \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commitment fee for the farmers is scaring the farmers and that is why the programme is failing,\u201d Mr. Demordzi stated, adding that farmers must pay for inputs and \u201cmost of the farmers do not have resources\u201d making it counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese farmers don\u2019t have the resources to pay for the commitment fee\u2026 so if you move to the communities now, most of these farmers who registered for this programme are not working on the programme,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment from CAPMA follows\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/06\/fewer-farmers-registering-for-planting-for-food-jobs-minister\/\">the admission<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by the Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture,\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Nurah\u00a0Gyiele,\u00a0that the programme is struggling to register the targeted 200,000 smallholder farmers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warning from peasant farmers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana had expressed concerns that the current plan for the programme excluded over 70% of peasant farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The association said the programme risked failure if it was not properly restructured to target more small-scale farmers, instead of large-scale farmers.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that, farmers would be discouraged by government\u2019s directive that beneficiaries of the programme deposit some amount of money into a bank account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late distribution of inputs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Per CAPMA\u2019s monitoring on the field, Mr. Demordzi said \u201cthe signs are not very good at all\u201d as he raised concerns with the distribution of inputs to the various communities, which he said \u201cis inefficiently done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs at the end of May, a lot of districts and agriculture communities don\u2019t have access to the feed and fertilizers. Some companies are still importing fertilizer into this country to be distributed to the various points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are at the end of May and farmers don\u2019t have access to the input, then what we are saying is that, the whole of the southern zone will not have access to the input and will not be able to produce within the first season of the programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Agricultural Policy\u00a0and\u00a0Analysis\u00a0(CAPMA) believes farmers are being scared away from enrolling on the Planting for Food and Jobs programme due to the commitment fees they have to pay before being granted inputs. 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