More than 100 hectares of land cropped with maize in Ghana's Bongo District was last weekend washed away by floodwaters which also destroyed 112 houses, rendering more than 500 people homeless.
Mr. David Mba, District Officer of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), said most of the farms were near one of the tributaries of the White Volta River that overflowed its banks. He said because communities in the district did not have fertile lands the farmers had moved close to the river to farm.
Mr. Atanga Alanga, a farmer from Feo who lost his 20-hectare maize farm, said he had nothing left except his tractor. He said the early millet crop which is usually used as a staple food during the months before the harvest of maize and late millet did not yield well because of the June/July drought. "We do not have anything left to depend on, we are finished", he said.
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