Ghana Must Fix Its Seed System to Secure Food Security and Climate Resilience
Ghana faces significant food security challenges due to an inefficient seed system, which limits farmers' access to quality inputs. Experts argue that improving logistics, credit access, and extension services is essential for climate resilience.
Why it matters
Strengthening agricultural infrastructure is critical for developing nations to combat climate change and ensure stable food supplies for growing populations.
Tamale, Sept 12, GNA – Ghana’s food security challenge cannot be solved without fixing one of the most important foundations of agriculture: seed. Seed is the first input in crop production.
When farmers plant quality seed of improved and well-adapted varieties, they stand a better chance of obtaining higher yields, resisting climate stress, reducing crop losses and improving their incomes.
Yet, for many farmers, access to quality seed remains uncertain. Certified seed is not always available at the right time, in the right quantity, in the right place and at an affordable price. In many farming communities, farmers continue to depend largely on recycled seed, informal seed exchange, grain used as seed, or seed of uncertain quality.
This weakens productivity and reduces Ghana’s ability to build a resilient food system.
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