{"id":725668,"date":"2019-10-17T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/17\/farmers-appeal-to-govt-for-child-care-centres\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T16:39:06","slug":"farmers-appeal-to-govt-for-child-care-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/17\/farmers-appeal-to-govt-for-child-care-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Appeal To Gov&#8217;t For Child Care Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Northern Regional chapter of the Smallholder Farmers Association of Ghana has appealed to government to construct child care centres in rural communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to them, will reduce the burden on women, thereby enabling them to actively engage in farming and other economic activities.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that the major problem of women in rural communities has to do with carrying children at their backs to  farms.<\/p>\n<p>The women lamented about insufficient tractor services, inadequate agric extension officers as some of their challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The group accused the District Agric offices in the region for neglecting women groups in the distribution of inputs for the Planting for Food and Jobs programme.<\/p>\n<p>The National, President Gbandi Veronica told the media that the situation has left many women to hover in poverty because they are unable to do other jobs.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>FROM Eric Kombat, Tamale <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Regional chapter of the Smallholder Farmers Association of Ghana has appealed to government to construct child care centres in rural communities across the country. 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