Livestock farmers in the Tamale Metropolis have received a credit facility totalling GH¢28,400 (¢284 million) to enable them to improve on their production

This will aid them to earn more income and also ensure food security in the metropolis.

In all, 17 farmers have benefited from the package that was disbursed by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA).

The Tamale Metropolitan Director of Agriculture, Mr Zakaria Fuseini, announced this in a speech read on his behalf at a day’s sensitization workshop in Tamale to deliberate on the regulatory policy on the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the area.

It was organised by the Northern Livestock Farmers Association
(NOLFA).

The director recognized the significant role of livestock farming to the agriculture sector and the economic growth of the country, and urged the people to engage actively in it to improve on their lot.

He, however, advised farmers in that sector not to hesitate to seek
expert advice from veterinary officers any time they encountered difficulties or found unusual behaviours in the animals.

Mr Fuseini called on members of NOLFA to join hands with relevant
agencies to address. The menace of some Fulani herdsmen whose activities were becoming dangerous to society.

An Assistant Commissioner of the Immigration Service in charge of
Alien Registration in the Northern Region, Mr Sumaila Seidu, also
expressed concern about the criminal activities of some of the herdsmen.

He mentioned armed robbery, rape, destruction of farmlands and
pollution of water bodies, as some of the practice of those herdsmen that sometimes resulted in conflicts between them and the people.

Mr Seidu explained that it was as a result of checking on such negative activities that his outfit had begun registering and issuing the herdsmen with an Alien Registration Cards.

"I would, therefore, entreat you and those at the communities to co-
operate and collaborate with us to flush out the recalcitrant ones
amongst them," he intimated.

Source: Daily Graphic