The research extension linkage
committee of the Tano South Municipality has organized stakeholders’ meeting to
explain the major problems hindering agricultural activities in the
Municipality and also used the meeting to solicit views on the priority needs
of farmers to make the Tano South agric department prepares its 2020 annual
work plan.
The meeting which held at Bechem
Pentecost church saw dignitaries like
Hon John Dadzie, the Presiding Member for Tano South Municipal Assembly, Hon
Collins Offinam Takyi, the MCE for Tano South, Mr. Kingsley Nyame, the Ahafo
Regional Director for Agric, Mr. Richard Assan Asare Donkor, the Bono Regional
Director for Agric and Mr. Kyei-Baffour Owusu- Ahaw, the Tano South Municipal Director for Agric.
The first picture above indicates dignitaries whilst the second one depicts participants at the programme
In a short but impressive opening
address, Hon John Dadzie, the Presiding Member for Tano South Municipal
Assembly thanked all participants for making time out of their busy schedule to
attend the programme and stressed that since the meeting was significant to the
development of the Municipality, he urged all and sundry to contribute their
quota to make the programme a success. Hon Dadzie said agriculture had
contributed significantly to Ghana’s economy and for the matter government had
introduced planting for food and jobs to make Ghana to be able to produce more
foodstuffs for sale to make the country acquires more monies to undertake other
developmental projects.
In another development, Mr.
Kyei-Baffour Owusu-Ahaw, the Municipal Agric Director said the purpose of the
meeting was to assist the Tano South Department of Agric and the stakeholders
to review 2018 work plan on problems confronting farmers in the
Municipality.
Tano
South Municipal Agric Director addressing the participants
Mr. Kyei stressed that the
meeting would also offer opportunity for department of Agric to collate views
on the priority needs of farmers to enable the department prepares its 2020
annual work plan to be used in the Municipality. He said, no department could
work effectively without policy document and urged all participants to support
the chairman to make him achieve an intent to which the meeting was organized.
Mr. Richard Assan Asare Donkor,
the Bono Regional Director for Agric said this important meeting had taken
place in Ahafo, Bono and Bono East Regions to make farmers and other civil
society organizations contributed to the government’s decision making processes
to ensure department of Agric gets credible policy document to address some of
the challenges confronting the agricultural sector in the aforementioned
regions and urged extension officers to do all they could to educate farmers on
the modern methods of agricultural practices to make them obtain higher yields
whilst Mr. Kingsley Nyame, the Ahafo Regional Director for Agric advised
extension officers to submit their activity reports on timely manner for
onwards submission to the other authorities to enhance policy formulation.
Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi, the
MCE for Tano South said sixty-five percent (65 %) of Ghana’s population could
be described as farmers and needed to be enrolled on pension schemes and
informed the Tano South Municipal Director for Agric and his office to play a
leading role to make government under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo to introduce pension scheme for farmers in the country especially
the Tano South Municipality. Hon. Takyi
stressed that government would not leave any stone unturned when it comes
to the distribution of resources and reiterated that Bechem town
roads had been awarded for contract by government and urged all citizens to
play their role to support government implement
its policies and programmes in all sectors of the economy.
MCE
for Tano South Hon. Collins Offinam Takyi addressing participants
Hon. Takyi said ‘’lack of
knowledge, my people perish’’ and
emphasized that most farmers had abused their farm products with chemicals
and eventually had negative impact on them and other people and used the
occasion to inform farmers to adopt traditional methods of farming.
The facilitators took
participants through various presentations like the activities of research
extension linkage committee, pest and diseases control, application of
chemicals and fertilizers on farms and modern methods of agricultural
practices.
