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TANO S: Agric Extension Officers receive motorbikes

Government has released ten (10) brown new Galaxy Motorbikes to the extension unit of the department of Agriculture in the Tano South Municipality to enhance the work of the extension officers.

Date Created : 8/27/2019 3:57:33 AM : Story Author : Barnie K. Agyeman/Ghanadistricts.com

At a ceremony to commission and distribute the motorbikes to the extension officers at the forecourt of the department of Agriculture, Mr Kyei-Baffour Owusu-Achaw, the Tano South Municipal Agric Director said the moorbikes will help the extension unit of the department of agriculture to reach farmers at hard to reach areas in the Municipality and educate farmers on the modern methods of agricultural practices to make farmers to obtain higher yields during the major and minor farming seasons.

Mr Kyei said government had introduced planting for food and jobs programme seeking to make Ghana achieves self- sufficiency in food production and stressed that the released of the motorbikes by government would go a long way to enhance the work of the extension officers and promised that the department would use the motorbikes for their intended purposes and put them into good use.

Collins Offinam Takyi, the Municipal Chief Executive for Tano South said he was very happy about the interventions government has introduced in the agricultural sector to assist farmers acquire bumper harvest during farming seasons and emphasized that government‘s planting for food and jobs programme has been recognized and supported by Canadian government and informed all officers in the Municipality to educate other residents in the Municipality on government policies and programmes to make government achieves an intent to which the programmes were introduced.

The MCE for Tano South speaking at the function

Mr. Takyi stressed that when Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government assumed office they had been able to employ extension workers in the Municipality and urged them to teach farmers with the modern methods of agricultural practices to make farmers produce more foodstuffs and hinted that Tano south Municipal Assembly had collaborated with the department of agriculture to embark on oil palm nursery project of which the seedlings had been distributed to farmers free of charge to boost agriculture activities in the Municipality.

On government industrialization policy, Hon Takyi said government had introduced different intervention programmes which could help farmers to produce more foodstuffs to feed industries and the nation and informed all and sundry to support government implement its policies and programmes.