TRAINING ORGANIZE FOR FARMERS IN THE JAMAN NORTH DISTRICT IMPROVE THEIR WORK
The Department of agriculture in the Jaman North district has organized a workshop for farmers in the district.
The training came off at the Pentecost district church. In attendance at the workshop were the district coordinating director of the district, farmers in the district, agric office staff both regional and district, and media.
The aim of the program is to identify the problems facing current farmers and how stakeholders can assist in resolving such challenges as pest and disease attacking their animals and cash crops which is affecting their work.
At the end of the program, some of the farmers express their joy to the organizers of the workshop and wish that such activities will be organized regularly to help curb challenges farmers face on their work.
Twifo Ati-Morkwa Farmers Praise Gov’t For Electronic Weighing Scales
Cocoa farmers in the Twifo Ati-Morkwa District of the Central Region have expressed their happiness of the government’s intention to introduce electronic cocoa weighing machine.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), of COCOBOD, Mr. Joseph Boahen Aidoo, has revealed that the management of COCOBOD is planning to introduce new weighing scales to be used by Licensed Buying Companies for purchases when the new cocoa season begins on October 1, 2021.
Mr. Boahen Aidoo attributed the achievement to the efforts of the hardworking farmers and the several interventions introduced by COCOBOD to increase the yield.
Following this, some cocoa farmers in Twifo Ati-Morkwa District have started singing praising songs to the government for taking such a decision, speaking with the media, they described the purchasing clerks (PCs) as cheaters because they feel cheated anytime they send their cocoa beans to the PCs.
SOME COCOA FARMERS IN TWIFO ATI-MORKWA DISTRICT
Meanwhile, the 2020 central Regional best cocoa farmer Mr. Falcon Mensah also on behalf of cocoa farmers expressed his profound gratitude to the government for taking such a decision.
He then urged his fellow cocoa farmers to obey the rules in the production of the cocoa beans to meet the required standard of the purchasing clecks/Ghana Cocobod by drying the beans very well and also select the unwanted ones and other particles from the Cocoa bean before sending it to the clerks for weighing.
MR. FALCON MENSAH, 2020 CENTRAL REGIONAL BEST COCOA FARMER
Mr John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC, has promised free fertilizer for cocoa farmers in his next administration, to boost cocoa production.
He said this at a mini rally at Mankranso, capital of the Ahafo Ano South West District in the Ashanti Region, as part of his six-day campaign tour of the Ashanti Region.
On the first day, Mr Mahama addressed mini rallies at Abesewa in the Ahafo Ano South East District; at Camp Two, Numesia in the Ahafo North District and he also paid a courtesy call on Nana Adusei Atwenewa Ampem I, the Omanhene of Tepa Tradational Area at his Palace in Tepa.
The Presidential Candidate also addressed similar rallies at Abuakwa, the District Capital of the Atwima Nwabiagya South; and at Ayigya in the Oforikrom Constituency in Kumasi.
At Abesewa, Mahama gave small scale miners the assurance that his next administration would track down all their seized excavators and return them to their rightful owners.
He said the next NDC Government would grant presidential pardon to all small scale miners, who had be imprisoned for engaging in galamsey activities and the next NDC Government would also see to it that mining licenses and concessions, which he said were illegitimately seized, were returned.
During the courtesy call on the Tepamanhene, Mr Mahama said his next administration would establish a jewelry processing factory in Tepa.
That, he said would add value to Ghana’s raw mineral resources, such as gold before export, to generate more revenue for the country’s socioeconomic development.
He assured the Tepa Traditional Council that their roads would be fixed by his next administration.
At Abuakwa, he assured that construction work would resume on the Military Hospital Project located in the town, which was started by his administration and had since been allegedly abandoned by the current government.
At Ayigya, Mr Mahama said his government would restore indigenous investments in the banking sector and promised that Ghanaians whose money was locked up following the collapsed of the banks and microfinance companies would have their money refunded to them by the state.
He outlined a number of projects, which his government undertook in the Ashanti Region during his first term, such as the Kejetia Market project.
At the mini rallies, Mr Mahama appealed to Ghanaians to return the NDC to power to continue its good works.
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