With about 40,000 hectares of prime black cotton soil and one of the country’s highest average rainfall amounts, the Pandamatenga commercial agriculture area is an arable farming paradise. And this year the area has again delivered the goods for the country, at a time when crops in other regions are wilting under the heat stress of the now all-too-common mid-season dry spell.
For this year’s harvest, the Pandamatenga Commercial Farmers Association (PCFA), which represents 30 farmers in the region, expects production across cereals and pulses to reach 77,178 tonnes, compared to 76,600 tonnes in the 2021–22 season. In the 2020–21 season, farmers produced 85,841 tonnes, suggesting that after last year, this season’s production is a rebound to better output levels.
