About 100 households in the Sissala East and Sissala West districts are benefiting from a 43,000 dollars' grant through the Sissala Literacy and Development Programme (SILDEP) to produce soya beans and moringa for domestic consumption and export.
Mr. Moses Luri, the Executive Director of SILDEP, told the GNA on Monday that the grant was provided by Symphone Charitable Organisation based
in the US.
He said through the grant, SILDEP was assisting farmers in the two districts to undertake commercial farming of the two crops.
Mr Luri said the choice of the two crops was because of their medicinal, economic and high nutritional value for both children and adults.
"Research has shown that both crops contain rich vitamins and irons that are needed for body maintenance," he said.
Mr. Luri said SILDEP was creating market linkages in the US to link up the farmers to the international market.
He said farmers were also receiving training on how to process the product for both local and international use.
In addition, farmers were being trained on how to access and manage credit as well as saving.
Mr. Luri said the ultimate objective of the programme was to mitigate rural poverty through literacy and skills development.
He said the programme would be extended to other districts in the region after it had been successfully implemented in the first two districts.