The Vea Irrigation Scheme in the Bongo District of the Upper East Region is among several major irrigation schemes in the country being rehabilitated, President John Dramani Mahama said in his State of the Nation Address.
Other schemes, the President said, are undergoing rehabilitation, include the Wheta, Tanoso, Kpone, Ashaiman and Aveyime irrigation schemes.
The rehabilitation is part of interventions being implemented under the Feeding Ghana initiative of the Mahama administration to boost agricultural productivity and attain food self-sufficiency.
Since taking over power in 2025, President Mahama said his administration has been pursuing a reset agenda in the agricultural sector under the administration’s Agriculture for Economic Transformation Agenda to “restore food sovereignty, stabilize food prices, reduce import dependence, increase decent jobs, especially for youth and reposition agric as a strategic growth sector under our 24-hour Economy”.
“With the Feeding Ghana programme serving as the flagship vehicle for implementation,” the President added.
Already, President Mahama said the agricultural policies and initiatives being rolled out by his administration have yielded significant results, slashing food inflation from 28.3 percent as at January 2025 to 4.9 percent in 2026.
“And this has provided relief to Ghanaian families and businesses. This year, we have committed 300 million Ghana cedis to the National Buffer Stock Company to mop up excess produce to stabilize prices and build a strategic national food buffer against emergencies.”
Under the Feeding Ghana programme, over 413 institutions have been registered to undertake institutional farming, the President disclosed, adding that families have been encouraged to setup home gardens to grow vegetables so as to reduce their expenditure on food and improve food security.
“The Feeding Ghana programme is also firmly anchored on Irrigation for Wealth Creation. Government is deliberately shifting our agriculture from rain fed dependence to irrigation-based farming to support year-round production and also strengthen our climate resilience.”
To this end, he said, “processes have begun for the construction of two new mega dams, rehabilitation of 8 existing irrigation dams and the construction of 250 solar-powered boreholes for farming communities and schools across the Northern belt and Brong-Ahafo regions”.
