Northern Ghana to experience normal rains

04-10-08
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THE northern part of the country is expected to have normal rains this year, a senior meteorologist with the Ghana Meteorological Agency, Mr Amos Narh, has disclosed.
Consequently, he advised people in the area, especially farmers, to take advantage of the rains and plant their crops.
“We are going to have enough rains to sustain agriculture. The people should take advantage of this,” he advised, adding that the rains were expected to start in mid-May in the northern part of the country.
Mr Narh told the Daily Graphic that the agency would inform the public on any changes in the weather condition.
Last year’s rains in the north, coupled with other factors, such as the opening of the spillway of a dam in Burkina Faso, resulted in flooding in the three northern regions, displacing thousands of people.
Bridges, houses and other property running into billions of cedis were also destroyed in the floods. Large acres of farm land and roads were also submerged by flood waters and a number of lives were also lost during the floods.
A rapid response team has been formed by the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to undertake emergency operations in Accra, in line with the severe flooding which is predicted to hit parts of the south.
The Greater Accra Regional Co-ordinator of NADMO, Mr Ben Brown, said a team had been assembled from the Navy, the Air Force, the Police Service, the Fire Service, the Red Cross, Civil Aviation, the Ghana Health Service and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to provide rescue and other services wherever flooding might occur.