General News of Sunday, 3 February 2019Source: mynewsgh.com12-year-old boy innocently burns father’s 2,500 tubers of yamA display of the burnt tubers of yamA 39-year-old farmer from Welembelle in the Sissala East Municipality of the Upper West Region is counting his loss after his 12-year-old son burnt over 2,500 tubers of yam he had harvested and stored in a barn while making arrangements to cart to the market centre. The burnt yam estimated at several thousands of cedis was literally reduced to ashes in the barn he had stored them waiting to be transported for sale. In an interview, he is quoted to have said “I am thankful to God for my son’s life. The loss is estimated to be around over Ten Thousand Ghana Cedis and now my yams sold to feed my family including yam plants have all been burnt “. He blamed poor market of yam due to the prices, a reason for keeping them at the barn with the hope of a shoot in prices in order to make some margin of profit.

Source: GhanaWeb February 03, 2019 09:00 UTC