Expedite Action  To Fully Implement  One-Village-One- Dam Initiative -President B-BOVID Farms Urges Akufo-Addo

President and Chairman of B,-BOVID Farms, the agribusiness firm at Angu, in the Shama District of Western Region,Mr Issa Ouedraogo, has described the One-Village-One-Dam (1V1D) initiative as a fastatic idea and called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to complete all projects under the 1V1D to help improve agricultural productivity as well as substainable farming activities in the country.

The celebrated entrepreneur, stated that the current government one-village-one-dam policy which was launched about six years ago is a very good initiative, saying that the policy would help many Ghanaian local farmers especially the people in the northern and western parts of the country if it is implemented fully by the government.

Speaking during a visit by local tourists and students to his farm to see how climate-smart Agriculture techniques are boosting farming activities in B-BOVID farms, Mr Ouedraogo indicated that he was referring to the two administrative regions that they would be the most beneficiaries from the policy because in the northern and western parts of the country, the rain does not fall like how it frequently falls in the southern parts of the country.

In general, the business mogul stressed that the government one-village-one-dam initiative would help the farmers to improve on the farming and other agricultural activities and productivities.

He cited an instance in the northern parts of the country where the farmers grown farm products like yam, maize, millet and others only in the rainy season in a year due to the lack of the frequent rain fall.

He stated that these are places if the government one-village-one-dam is fully implemented it would help the people in these farming communities.

He indicated that with the full implementation of the policy the situation when the farmers living in these farming communities in the Northern Region to practice one seasoned farming situation would be stopped.

Additionally, Mr Ouedraogo stressed that the construction of the dam would make the farmers to easily farm two times in a year which would bring socio-economic development in Ghana.

"There are climate change challenges in the Northern and Western parts of the country so if the farmers in the regions could have the one-village-one-dam in their areas, the farmers would have a enough water to use for their faming activities without depending solely on the rainy water during rain seasons to farm," he noted.

Mr Ouedraogo pointed that the farming activities would not be a seasonable things in the implementation beneficiary communities of the initiative.

According to him, the farmers who grows varieties of the farm products, can easily grow maize and vegetables at the same giving time since there is enough water to grow the farm products.

"So when it happens in this ways, the farmers would build farming storage warehouses so that they grow more products so that they would store the products in the warehouses to sell to the individual customers.

"The initiative would also help them to grow more farm products so that they would keep the products in the warehouses to export to the international community," he added.

Mincing no words, Mr Ouedraogo shared his benefits and experience on how he used his three constructed dams to improve on his farming activities which has made him to become a successful business farmer in the country.

He noted that he constructed his dam for the past ten years, noting that he employed nine (9) farmers using the dams to grow varieties of the vegetables and maize through out the years of the establishment of these dams.

He pointed out that with the help of the dams he can grow a total of three hundred acres of vegetables or maize through out the year.

"So if the government helps the farmers to depend on these new farm technologies it would help to improve sustainable farming in the country.

He pointed out that the help of the dam from the government would also help the farmers to mitigate the climate changes.

"Because if God has helped the farmer to the effect that the climate changes become too big the farm cannot grow his farm even in one year farming seasoned period."

"If the rain is not falling at the time that the farmer needs and also the rain has not fallen at all and that if the farmer has the dam, he would harvest the rain water and that any time can cultivate his farms," Mr Ouedraogo explained.

In this sense, the founding President of B,-BOVID Farms stressed the need for farmers to switch to climate-smart agriculture to boost their business.

 According to him, he will continue to lead this drive as a way to see a change in agricultural practices in the country. 

On his farm, Mr Ouedraogo has a 15-acre garden, named it garden of Eden which has ecological and agro-forestry with vegetables and other products in it. 

He has also set up three big dams, to demonstrate climate smart Agricultural technology for future farming.

Meanwhile, Mr Ouadraogo believes he can work with the government to expand the scope of his business and ideas to benefit more Ghanaians.

"What we have been doing with B-BOVID in the last seven years, is to introduce people to his new concept of farming geared towards training farmers on sustainable Agriculture”, he noted.