Farming without irrigation is like gambling, we’ll invest in irrigation devt – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that the government is going to invest in irrigation development.

This, he said would enable the farmers to reduce their dependence on rainwater for producing their crops.

Without irrigation development, he noted, farming becomes like gambling where the farmers do not know whether they will gain number harvest.

“Agriculture, we have realised that because of climate change the rainfall pattern is erratic and the government is targeting irrigation development because without water control farmers become like gambling,” he said at a thank you tour in the northern regional capital Tamale on Saturday, March 22.

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President Mahama also pronounced that going forward the Controller and Accountant General’s Department will pay directly the allowances of the Nursing and Teacher Trainees.

This means that whenever public sector workers receive their salaries, the teacher and nursing trainees will also receive their allowances at the same time, President Mahama stated.

The issue of trainee teachers’ and nurses allowances was a major campaign in 2016 that cost his first term.

The past Akufo-Addo administration campaigned on it but reneged on ensuring the allowances were paid on time with arrears running into several months unpaid.

He said  “If you recall the previous administration changed the curriculum and yet refused to provide textbooks for our basic school students  This no-textbook phenomenon will end this year.  Your own son, Honourable Haruna Iddrisu is responsible for implementing this and he has assured us that these textbooks are going to be printed by Ghanaian printers so that money stays here in Ghana.

“There is good news for nursing and teacher trainees. Nursing and Teacher trainee allowances are to be paid directly by the Controller and Accountant General.  This has been made a part of the compensation items in the budget. This will permanently eliminate delays in training receiving their allowances. This means that any time public sector workers receive their monthly salary teachers and nursing trainees will also receive their allowances.”

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