A FIFTY-SIX-year-old farmer from Kwahu Amanfrom, Mr Jonas Tsosam, was adjudged this year’s overall best farmer in the Kwahu South District in the Eastern Region.
Mr Tsosam has been a professional farmer for the past 26 years, cultivating many cash and food crops, as well as engaging in poultry production.
Mr Tsosam received a bicycle, a full piece of wax print, a spraying machine, five machetes, 10 roofing sheets, a 21-inch colour television set and a certificate as his prize.
About 30 other farmers including women who also distinguished themselves in the cultivation of various crops, animal rearing, as well as fish farming, and an agricultural extension officer were also honoured.
They received various items such as spraying machines, machetes, Wellington boots, wax prints and roofing sheets.
Presenting the items to them at a ceremony at Kwahu Ntomeng, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Joseph Omari, praised farmers in the district for their hard work.
To boost food production in the district, Mr Omari said 64 young men and women had been supplied with the necessary inputs such as maize seeds and fertiliser to cultivate 75 acres of maize in the area during the major season, while an acre of rice demonstration farm had been established at Formanso to train the youth in rice cultivation.
The DCE stated that this year, 21,424 hectares of cocoa farms belonging to 5,744 farmers had been given special attention with regard to black pod and capsid disease control.
He said 300 cockerels had been distributed to 44 farmers to improve genetic composition of local birds through cross breeding to improve the lot of peasant farmers.
Mr Omari stated that other farmers were also being assisted to apply modern technology in farming.
He said a number of challenges such as bad roads, lack of storage and processing facilities continued to negatively affect food production and marketing in the area.
Mr Omari said his administration was seriously tackling the issues, especially the rehabilitation of most of the roads.
Mr Tsosam and Mr Eric Midorse, the third national best farmer who is also from Adaklu, a village in the district, praised the government for its assistance to farmers and expressed the hope that such assistance would continue.
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