The Amansie Central District Assembly of the National Association of Service Personnel Administrators (NASPA) has discovered a seed which can revive lands which have been degraded by sand miners and galamseyers within three (3) months.
The seed identified as Mokona was discovered after a research by the NASPA executives in the Amansie Central District to help bring back nutrients into the lands which has been destroyed by galamseyers and sand miners.
Amansie Central District has been classified as one of the mining districts in the country.
Over the years, farmers in the district have complained about food production reduction due to farm lands which has been destroyed by galamseyers and sand miners.
The Mokana seeds have been planted on a 5 acre land which lost it’s nutrients after the the land was weeded by a machine at Esreso, a farming community in the district.
The Acting District Director of the National Service Scheme, (NSS) Abdulai Abdul-Razak speaking in an interview with Pure Fm’s Osei Kwadwo explained that “the land was given to the district NASPA members by the Amansie Central District Assembly to help them take part in the Planting for Food and Jobs policy introduced by President Akuffo-Addo’s government”
According to Abdulai Abdul-Razak, “the land lost it’s nutrients after it was weeded by the machine for the parking of arrested excavators which the illegal miners were using to engage in illegal mining”.
The President of NASPA in the Amansie Central District Mettle Rahim stated emphatically that planting the Mokona seeds on the became the only option after NASPA members research on how a land which has lost it’s nutrients gain back it’s nutrients.
Meanwhile, the DCE for Amansie Central District Hon Kwame Asamoah Boateng has pledged the assembly support to the NASPA members as education the assembly will organize education for farmers, chiefs and small scale miners in the district.
