DAILY GRAPHIC, Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Pg.47. More donate towards Farmers Day

Mr Raymond Kassah of the Kasapreko Ghana Limited presenting a cheque to the deputy Minister of Agriculture, in-charge of Fisheries, Mr Nii Amasah-Namoale

Story: Mary Ankrah
The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, in-charge of Fisheries, Mr Nii Amasah-Namoale, has announced that all donations towards the support of this year farmers’ day celebration will end by October 19, 2012.

The closure of the donations, he said, was to enable the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) have adequate time to sort out the items and cheques presented so it would know the items needed to arrange or buy to balance what it had received from institutions, organisations, sponsors and individuals so far.

He made this known in Accra last Tuesday when eight more organisations presented various items to support the 28th Farmers Day celebration slated for November 2, 2012 at Abokobi in the Ga East Municipality on the theme: “Grow More Food: Strengthening Farmer Based Organisations for Market Place Bargaining Power”.

The organisations included the Metropolitan Insurance (MET) which sponsored the best farmer of the year with one-year insurance over valued to cover the house the best farmer would receive and its content including personal accident within the house and furniture; Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), GHC 15, 000; Action Motors, GHC 1,000; Koudijs and Shyams Ghana Limited, 50 bags of 50 kilograms of Koudijs feeds plus GHC2, 500, and the Ghana Chamber of Mines donated GHC 5,000.

The rest are Cocoa Input Ghana Limited which presented some house cooking materials worth of GHC 6,000; Kasapreko Ghana Limited presented 30 pieces of assorted brands of Kasapreko products and GHC 1,500 while Olam Ghana Limited sponsored the best cocoa and cashew nut farmer with GHC 6,000 each, GHC 6,000 to the best farmer and GHC2, 000 to the planning committee for the farmers day celebration.

Mr Namoale thanked the various organisations for their immense contributions and sponsorship towards the farmers’ day celebrations and appealed to other stakeholders and organisation to make theirs to make the occasion a successful one.

“The farmers will always be glad for your wonderful contributions and would be loyal to produce more food for the country”, he added.

This year farmer’s day celebration has been brought earlier than the usual first week of December in view of the December 7 general election