Dr. Godfred Osei Bonsu Twum, Akuapem South Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has advised farmers to always re-invest part of their earnings, in order to increase production, local consumption, and export.
He said this would also enable the country increase its foreign exchange earnings to step up development efforts.
Dr. Osei Bonsu said this at Pakro near Nsawam, during the 25th National Farmers Day. Mr. Edmund Kwabena Nkansah, a 46-year-old worker at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, was adjudged the Overall Best Farmers. He has 60 acres of plantain farm, 45 acres of citrus, 11 of acres coconut farm, 15 acres of maize, four acres of mango, 80 guinea fowls, 40 local goats and 64 sheep.
Mr. Nkansah, who hails from Darmang Ahwerease near Nsawam, took home a bicycle, bags of fertilizers, a water pump machine, Wellington boots, cutlasses, a spraying machine and a certificate as his awards. Dr. Osei Bonsu also called on chiefs in the municipality to offer lands for the youth to start farming, instead to travelling to the cities searching for white-collar jobs.
He commended the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) for re-gravelling several roads, and providing training to over 500 farmers in the municipality. Dr, Osei, however, called on farmers, who had benefited from MiDA�s credit facility, to repay their loans to enable others to also benefit.
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