Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has declared that agriculture will be his top priority if elected President in the 2024 general elections.

He assured farmers that he would collaborate with countries like Brazil and China, which have higher crop productivity, to adopt best practices and technologies.

Dr Bawumia pledged to establish District Agricultural Mechanisation centres across farming districts, providing affordable equipment to expand production.

He made these remarks during a courtesy call on Sandem-Nab, Nab Azaksuk Azantilow, Paramount Chief of the Builsa Traditional Area in the Upper East Region, as part of his campaign tour.

“Agriculture is going to be my number one priority. We will make sure that we have all the different pillars in place for farmers.

“I want to bring in the best practices from countries like Brazil and China that have higher productivity in crops such as maize and rice. We want to also learn from them to adopt some of those technologies that are giving them two or three times the yields per acre that we are doing.”

Furthermore, Dr. Bawumia vowed to shift Ghana’s focus away from chemical fertilizers.

“I want Ghana to move away from chemical fertilizers for our soil to lime. Lime is the way forward. We have limestone in Ghana and it is much cheaper than the fertilizer, and we want to help the farmers with this new soil fertility treatment through lime.”