The largest banana exporting company in Ghana, Golden Exotic Limited, claims that they have suffered a $500,000 infrastructure loss due to excessive water spillage from the Akosombo Dam, according to the company's authorities.The floods have affected a big area of farmlands, covering 45 hectares. It is estimated that around 44,528 bunches of bananas have been underwater because of the floods. Mr Benedict Rich, who is in charge of Golden Exotics Limited, said to the Ghana News Agency that the spillage has caused problems with their supplies. We have around 4000 employees, and a lot of them struggle to come to work. He said that the roads are covered with water, so we can't collect the harvest. This is the time of year when we gather the most crops, and we thought we would send over 2000 tons every week to other countries. The spilled water caused big floods that destroyed our farms.

In the meanwhile, Mr. Rich reported that the business had started constructing a dam along the river to stop water from accessing certain farmlands and pumping some water so that the workers could rescue what they could.

The plantation had not experienced floods of that size since it was founded, he claimed, adding that management was not given enough time to prepare for the spill.

"The discharge of water from the dams occurs every other year, typically rising two to three metres beyond the normal level. It has advanced by around five metres this year.

"These are new farms, and we have lost almost 45 hectares to the flood," he added, adding that bananas could not survive in water for more than 72 hours.

The company's Corporate Affairs and Administration Manager, Mr. Mark Achel, said that management was aware of the struggles residents were facing and had provided them with aid.

On September 15, 2023, the VRA began the controlled spillage at the Akosombo and Kpong dams in the Eastern Region due to excess water in both reservoirs.

A rough estimate of 26,000 people had been relocated as of October 17, 2023, as a result of the leak. Since the construction of the Akosombo Dam, which receives water from six separate tributaries, this is the biggest magnitude of displacement and volume recorded.

The VRA has previously let water pour out of the Dam. It did leak in the following years: 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, and 1991, with 2010 being the most recent.

The Saharan countries are seeing above-average rainfall distribution, according to data from the Ghana Meteorology Agency (GMet).

The above-average rainfall that happened in the country's northeast, which flows into the White Volta, is the other occurrence that has contributed to the huge amounts of water input.