About $35.9 million grant has been allotted to the feed the long run Ghana Market Systems and Resilience Activity (MSR) to beef up and reinforce agricultural marketplace techniques in the northern a part of Ghana.

The Grant through the United States Agency for International Develop-ment (USAID) would end result in larger potency, productiveness and invest-ment in items and products and services that power agricultural-led financial expansion.

This got here to gentle at a workshop organised through the MSR at the impor-tance and the way to observe for the grant in Accra the day gone by.

Speaking to the Media, the Agribusiness and Financial Services Team Leader for MSR, Mr Raymond Denteh, printed that equivalent work-shops could be held in the quite a lot of areas in Ghana to teach extra other people in regards to the grant procedure and the way they are able to get right of entry to the grant.

He defined that one may get right of entry to the grant via the idea that notes which “upon review by MSR and we feel you meet the criteria, you can put in a full application and then we give you the funds to sup-port you implement the activities you want to carry out.”

He added that of the $35.9 million allotted to the MSR through the USAID, $6 million could be used for the grants while the rest of the cash could be allotted to similarly import-ant actions in the rural house.

He hinted that a hit candidates could be given at least $5,000 and maxi-mum of $250,000.

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Col-laborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Director of MSR, Mr Eric Sunu, stated the aim of the grant was once to make sure that the marketplace device was once extra resilient, tough and inclusive.