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Over 4,000 farmers to receive
Millennium Authority Assistance
Kwahu Adawso, Nov. 8, Ghanadot/GNA - The Millennium
Development Authority (MDA), has given approval for the
development of 95 farmer-based organizations, with a total
membership of 4,750 to directly benefit from the programme.
The programme would cover the farmers for a period of five
years in the Kwahu South and East Districts, to increase
food, livestock and fish production.
The farmers group would receive irrigation facilities and
other essential farming inputs, credit facilities,
construction of roads, schools and clinics to enhance the
living standard of farmers in the area.
The Kwahu South District Chief Executive, Nana Onwona
Asante, announced this at the 24th National Farmers’ Day
celebration for the two districts at Adawso, where 20
farmers, who distinguished themselves in the cultivation of
various food crops, livestock and fish, were honoured.
He said the first batch of 35 groups, involving 1,750
farmers were about to complete the first phase of the Farmer
Based Organization (FBO), capacity training programme, while
the training for the second batch would soon commence.
Nana Asante said 59,400 acres of cocoa farms for 6,141
farmers were expected to be sprayed under the mass cocoa
spraying exercise to control cocoa diseases and pest control
(CODAPC), to increase production in the area.
He advised against bush fires, to enhance the production of
cash crops and other agriculture produce in the district.
The District Fire Officer, Mr Paul Akesseh, appealed to the
communities to assist the newly trained fire volunteers to
put off bush fires and also urged the trainees to educate
the people on the effect of bushfires on the environment.
The district best farmer award went to Mr Kwesi Frimpong,
46, who cultivated various food crops and had a livestock
and poultry farm on a 75 acre land at Agyebua village, near
Kwahu Tafo.
He received a bicycle, certificate, a 21- inches television
set, one knapsack spraying machine, a pair of Wellington
boots, six cutlasses and a full piece of cloth.
The best physically challenged farmer award went to Mr Yaw
Tsotovor from Adawso while 70 other farmers also received
cutlasses each.
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