Fears heighten for acute shortage of maize production along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border

Fears are heightening for a possible acute shortage of maize produce this year due to a major shift of attention from the crop by farmers along the Ghana-Burkina Faso border to the production of sesame. An environmentalist, Ayamga Bawa Fatawu, while expressing concerns about the low production of maize this year in the agrarian areas fears that the entire country could be hit by an acute shortage of the commodity after this rainy season. In a report, the award-winning Tourism Writer said the situation is a result of the discovery of the sesame crop termed by farmers as a new white gold which led them to make a major shift from the production of maize to sesame because it involves little or no cost in production. According to Mr. Ayamga B. Fatawu, the decision of the farmers could partly be blamed on the scarcity and high cost of fertilizer in this season. “[These areas have] now allocated a chunk part of their farmlands to the cultivation of the white Sesame to avoid ...