SADA commissions office in Tamale

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• Sankofa 11 years ago

  SADA is an important initiative for socio-economic develpment in the NORTH.
  
  It appears to be making good progress.
  
  Management and All stakeholders must work together to ensure its success, and raise the living standards ...
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  SADA is an important initiative for socio-economic develpment in the NORTH.
  
  It appears to be making good progress.
  
  Management and All stakeholders must work together to ensure its success, and raise the living standards of the North.

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• KARI BANDA 11 years ago

  THE NORTH BY ITS STRATEGIC LOCATION CAN OPEN UP BUSINESS CONNECTIONS WITH THE INTERLOCK COUNTRIES OF BURKINA FASO, MALI,AND NIGER.

  THE NORTH BY ITS STRATEGIC LOCATION CAN OPEN UP BUSINESS CONNECTIONS WITH THE INTERLOCK COUNTRIES OF BURKINA FASO, MALI,AND NIGER.

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• KARI BANDA 11 years ago

  THE NORTH NEEDS IRRIGATION, STORAGE FACILITIES AND GOOD TRANSPORTATION NET-WORK. THE NORTH CAN SUPPLY FOOD TO THE INTERLOCK BURKINA FASO, NIGER AND MALI. IT IS LOCATED IN A STRATEGIC ECOWAS REGION THAT CAN OPEN UP BUSINESSES ...
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  THE NORTH NEEDS IRRIGATION, STORAGE FACILITIES AND GOOD TRANSPORTATION NET-WORK. THE NORTH CAN SUPPLY FOOD TO THE INTERLOCK BURKINA FASO, NIGER AND MALI. IT IS LOCATED IN A STRATEGIC ECOWAS REGION THAT CAN OPEN UP BUSINESSES FOR MANY GHANIANS AND BRING IN A LOT OF REVENUE FOR GHANA.

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• Baako 11 years ago

  There is always a good harvest in the north and not because of SADA presence. What farmers in the north need to accelerate growth are good market for thier produce, good storage facilities to prevent post harvest loss.

  There is always a good harvest in the north and not because of SADA presence. What farmers in the north need to accelerate growth are good market for thier produce, good storage facilities to prevent post harvest loss.

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• munkaila razak seini 11 years ago

  As an aggregator in my private capacity and a hybrid seed distributor in my official capacity i do attest to the fact that sada is on course and delivering wonderful results particularly in the agric. aspect at the rural and ...
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  As an aggregator in my private capacity and a hybrid seed distributor in my official capacity i do attest to the fact that sada is on course and delivering wonderful results particularly in the agric. aspect at the rural and urban levels. stay bless sada

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• razak seini 11 years ago

  As a private aggregator of cereals and legumes and as officially a hybrid seed distributor, am fully aware of the wonderful and great impact sada has both on urban and rural agric. in all her operational areas. Stay bless SAD ...
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  As a private aggregator of cereals and legumes and as officially a hybrid seed distributor, am fully aware of the wonderful and great impact sada has both on urban and rural agric. in all her operational areas. Stay bless SADA

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• Baako 11 years ago

  What kind of good work are they doing, they are only taken monies from the government and enriching themselves. Last year my brother and many other farmers in Zabzugu could not harvest thier rice farm was left un-harvested be ...
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  What kind of good work are they doing, they are only taken monies from the government and enriching themselves. Last year my brother and many other farmers in Zabzugu could not harvest thier rice farm was left un-harvested because there was no combine harvester to harvest the rice

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• Proud Pepeman. 11 years ago

  WHAT GOOD WORK ARE THEY DOING? THESE ARE ROGUES MASQUERADING AS OUR SAVIOURS. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME GO TO THE NORTH. THEY HAVE REFUSED TO RELEASE MONEY FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE FARM PRODUCE THAT THEY GAVE SEEDS TO PLANT.THEY ...
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  WHAT GOOD WORK ARE THEY DOING? THESE ARE ROGUES MASQUERADING AS OUR SAVIOURS. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME GO TO THE NORTH. THEY HAVE REFUSED TO RELEASE MONEY FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE FARM PRODUCE THAT THEY GAVE SEEDS TO PLANT.THEY ARE TELLING THE PEOPLE WHO ORGANISED THE FARMERS TO BRING THE PRODUCE TO THEM WITHOUT PAYMENT. THIS IS A FACT AND ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED CAN INVESTIGATE. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO WERE MADE TO GET INVOLVED AND NOW THEY CAN'T PAY THEIR WORKERS. ALL THEIR USUAL CONTACTS AT SADA ARE NOW NOT RESPONDING TO THEM. THOSE WHO ARE MAKING NOISE ARE BEING LABELLED TROUBLE MAKERS. IS THAT THE GOOD WORK? THIS IS THE TYPICAL WAY GHANAIAN BIG MEN GET AWAY WITH MURDER. THE FARMERS HAVE BEEN CRYING FOR THEIR PRODUCE TO BE BOUGHT SINCE NOVEMBER AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN HEEDED. THIS IS A PAINFUL THING AS IT IS BEING PERPETRATED BY OUR OWN NORTHERN BROTHERS. IN THE MEAN TIME, THEY PAID IN ADVANCE FOR TREE PLANTING. AS AT NOW, THIS IS BECOMING A MASSIVE SCAM. MR PRESIDENT PLEASE SIT UP AND DO SOMETHING BEFORE THEY BRING SHAME ON YOU. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MR PRESIDENT SADA STINKS, DON'T IGNORE OUR WHAT WE ARE SAYING. PLEASE DON'T PROTECT THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU KNOW THEM. THAT IS HOW THE COUNTRY'S WEALTH IS PILFERED AWAY AND NOTHING HAPPENS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE DOING IT KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE. MR PRESIDENT, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO FIGHT CORRUPTION THERE SHOULD BE NO SACRED COWS.

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• Kweku Boateng Jnr 11 years ago

  In the 1970s Colonel Acheampong set up the regional development corporations, where are they today? Hope the SADA leadership are learning the lessons of the 1970s. Many leaders of the development corporations became rich over ...
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  In the 1970s Colonel Acheampong set up the regional development corporations, where are they today? Hope the SADA leadership are learning the lessons of the 1970s. Many leaders of the development corporations became rich overnight. Incompetence took over. Just examine the Northern regional development corporation which was a total failure, there was no difference between their private properties and the state.
  SADA leaders from the Executive director to the messenger need to declare their ASSETS and publish in the national and regional press.
  
  I pray that the GII keeps an eye on corruption in the north as government puts several billions towards the north's development. Proud Pepeman can also do us some good by updating readers on the challenges and success of SADA. For example, can SADA publish the names of all those who were given or bought the tractors SADA procured in 2012? Let's make SADA work in the interest of mother Ghana.

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• Kweku Boateng Jnr 11 years ago

  India's villagers reap visible benefits from solar electricity schemeEnergy NGO Teri has revolutionised 500,000 lives through a scheme that uses solar LED lanterns to provide cheap power
  More than 2,000 villages have been pr ...
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  India's villagers reap visible benefits from solar electricity schemeEnergy NGO Teri has revolutionised 500,000 lives through a scheme that uses solar LED lanterns to provide cheap power
  More than 2,000 villages have been provided with 'charging stations', each offering 50 or so solar LED lanterns.
  India's rush for industrialisation may be stymied by a lack of power for its factories, but, barely noticed, solar electricity is being taken to thousands of villages in one of the most ambitious grassroots projects ever attempted.
  
  
  Five years ago an estimated 400 million people lived with rudimentary, low-quality kerosene lamps, providing poor, polluting and often dangerous light. A further 100m homes were nominally connected to the grid but had intermittent power, often at times when no one wanted it.
  
  
  But in five years, thanks largely to a single NGO that has not sold one lamp, 500,000 more homes have been provided with cheap, decentralised electricity via powerful solar LED lanterns using the latest batteries and panels.
  
  
  Teri, India's leading energy research institute, launched its Lighting One Billion Lives initiative in 2007. After a slow start – only four villages signed up in the first year – it has taken off. More than 2,000 villages now have "charging stations", each offering 50 or so long-lasting, high-quality solar lanterns that double up as mobile phone chargers.
  
  
  Teri does not make, distribute or sell the lamps. Instead, it acts as a combined social, developmental and technical enterprise. Its scientists and designers work closely with more than 20 manufacturers to improve the quality and reliability of the lamps, and bring down their cost, while other teams work with villages, NGOs and banks to identify people to run the charging stations. Teri helps to set up repair shops, trains people and provides technical support.
  
  
  "We are trying to improve the quality of the lamps and build up the chain of local entrepreneurs. We helped seed and catalyse the market," says Ibrahim Rehman, director of Teri's social transformation division.
  
  
  "People were paying about $1 a month for kerosene lamps, so we had to have an economic model which allowed people to pay about the same as they did before. At the start, the lanterns used to cost about $100 each but now they are down to $15-$30. The batteries used to last one year; now they last three."
  
  
  People can buy them on microcredit, but in the villages most rent them for a few pence a day. Teri itself, NGOs, businesses, Bollywood film stars and individuals partly or completely sponsor a village to have lanterns, after which a local villager runs the operation as a business, renting them out for no more than they used to pay for kerosene. Villagers drop the lamps to the charging station in the morning and the lights are charged when they return in the evening.
  
  
  "People were suspicious to start with but now they are queueing to put their names down for them," says Rehman, who estimates that 500,000 homes have now been provided with light, with numbers increasing exponentially. At this rate, in 10 more years, most Indian villages will have light.
  
  
  "The benefits are visible," says Dhairya Dholakia, area convenor for the project. "People have bright, clean, non-polluting light. There's a clear health benefit. Education is also improved – because children can continue their studies later – and so are livelihoods. All these villages now have 'entrepreneurs' running the solar charging stations. They are earning money."
  
  
  The lanterns are welcomed, he says. Craftsmen can work later, shops can stay open longer, births are easier to monitor and people have more possibilities to earn money.
  
  
  "Energy is the missing MDG [millennium development goal]. It is the underlying development goal that fuels so much other development. It has so many co-benefits," says Jarnail Singh, a Teri researcher who visits many of the villages and has seen how clean light raises people's development ambitions. "When people have lighting they realise they can have refrigeration, can keep their food and products long term," he says.
  
  
  Increasingly, Teri is setting up "micro grids", where 10 or more houses or shops may be linked to a single solar array. Each house will then have two power points, making the result similar to being connected to the grid. Here, the entrepreneur pays for the equipment, but householders pay for the connection.
  
  
  India is pursuing electrification remorselessly, but business and the cities are given preference and it is expected to be many years before the grid reaches the remotest places – if it does so at all.
  
  
  Teri is now expanding the scheme to Afghanistan, Burma, Pakistan and African countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone.
  
  
  "Merely transplanting technological solutions from the developed world … can lead to a mismatch," says Rajendra Pachauri, director general of Teri, who is also the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "However, there are huge benefits from south-south co-operation [like this] because the cultural context and complexity of the challenge across different developing countries have a great deal in common."
  www.theguardian.co.uk

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