According
to the report, the fund would go to support the implementation of an
Agricultural Mechanisation Service Centre (AMSEC), and the projects are
intended to provide farmers in the country with affordable and timely
access to farm machinery.
Ghana's
Interior Minister, Mark Owen Woyongo was cited in the report to have
said India has also provided another $30 million line of credit to be
used for the rehabilitation and upgrade of potable water in Yendi in the
northern region.
Under
the AMSEC project, farmers will benefit in their land preparation with
planters for precision planting, boom sprayers and pumps for proper crop
maintenance, and combine harvesters for effective harvesting. Other
goals of the AMSEC programme are to increase the low number of tractor
to farmer ratio as well as reduce the drudgery and tediousness
associated with manual farming operations, the report noted. Agriculture
is a very important contributor to Ghana's economy, offering employment
to about 60 percent of the population and contributing 22 percent to
GDP in 2013, a drop in the 2009 figure of 31.8 percent.
Ghana-India
bilateral relations have been going on for nearly sixty years. So far,
the Indian government has extended lines of credit amounting to $224
million to the Ghana government for various developmental projects,
according to information available from the Indian government.
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