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UE/R: 1V1D in Megogo dries up leaving farmers frustrated

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Farmers in Megogo in the Bawku Municipality of the Upper East Region are frustrated that a dam constructed under the Government’s One-Village-One-Dam project is almost dry.

They said their hope of engaging in dry season farming has been dashed, as the dam has dried up faster than they expected.

Megogo is a farming community in the Bawku Municipality of the Upper East region with a population of over two thousand. Only three boreholes serve the entire community.

Community members have complained about the situation. The construction of the dam could have been a turning point for the community. Women and children spend much time queuing at the boreholes to draw water day and night.

The water situation worsens in the dry season. Crops such as tomatoes, okro, pepper, garden eggs, onions and lettuce, among other green leafy vegetables grown on several hectares of land are drying up as the farmers look on helpless.

When GBC’s Radio Ghana visited the community, it observed that canals linked to gardens were dried up while cattle in the area compete with the farmers for the little water in the dam for survival. Farmers in the community appealed to government and NGOs o provide them with boreholes to save their farms.

According to the farmers, the One-Village-One-Dam project constructed in the area to assist in dry season farming is drying up.

Most of the farmers say the project in the community which they depended on is drying up faster than they imagined and the little quantity of water in the dam could not water their crops to maturity.

A farmer, Amadu Abugri, said even though they appreciated government’s initiative to construct the dam, the water situation in the dam allowed only a handful of farmers numbering about fifty to farm this year.

Mr. Abugri explained that some farmers after clearing their gardens and farmlands with the hope of benefiting from the water in the dam abandoned their farms when they realised that the water could not support their crops.

He said the only immediate feasible remedy to save the situation would be boreholes so that the dam could later be expanded to carry more water to complement the boreholes to enable every farmer in the area to engage in dry season farming.

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