THE Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Mahmoud Khalid, has charged agricultural experts in the country, especially those in the regions, to continue to make available information on the forecasts of the rainfall pattern to farmers.
He said that would aid farmers to plan their activities ahead of time and also to minimise losses.
Mr Khalid also urged experts to disseminate such information on the forecast of the weather and the rainfall patterns to students and pupils for them to be abreast with the trend as they grew up.
Mr Khalid gave the advice when he addressed the opening ceremony of a National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stakeholders’ workshop on weather pattern in Wa.
The workshop was attended by representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), farmers and regional directors of agriculture.
The regional minister appealed to the participants to extend their training programmes to district agricultural agents to enable them to impart the knowledge they had acquired to opinion leaders and farmers at the district level.
Mr Khalid urged the organisers to include other cereals and tubers such as rice, maize, yam and cassava under the weather forecast programme.
Dr Jessie Naab of the Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), one of the resource persons, said the exercise was to drum home the message to all stakeholders that it was possible to predict changes in the climate.
He said it would also build upon the capacity of the participants to be able to apply what they had learnt.
Dr Naab said the weather forecast programme was a pilot project introduced four years ago with the objective of studying the weather, especially the rainfall pattern, to enhance the cultivation of groundnuts.
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