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The General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) is advocating for government to extend the recent security measures used to prevent farmers from exporting grains to aid in the fight against illegal mining.

According to the Association's General Secretary, Edward Kareweh, although the group is impressed by the swift measures adopted to ensure food security in the country, dry spell was not the only threat to agriculture.

Speaking on Joy FM's Top Story on August 27, he explained that it is necessary that the government tackles all problems relating to agriculture including illegal mining known as 'galamsey' rather than one aspect.

“We want the government to use the security to do all these things all these things and even for some of us. We don’t even want the ban. There are other things that are threatening agricultural production.

“Even though this is an emergency and we are dealing with it the emergency some other illegal activity like galamsey would have caused more harm again to our agricultural system than we have now.

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