Planting for Food and Jobs is to achieve boost in food production - MCE

The Municipal Director for Agriculture in Tano South Municipality in the Ahafo region, Mr Kyei-Baffour Owusu-Achaw says the introduction of the Planting for Food and Jobs by government is to make Ghana achieve self-sufficiency in food production.

Mr. Owusu-Achaw said this at a ceremony where government released ten (10) Galaxy Motorbikes to the Extension Unit of the Department of Agriculture in the Municipality to enhance the work of Agric Extension Officers.

Mr Owusu-Achaw said the motorbikes 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 obtain higher yields during the major and minor farming seasons.

He stressed that the motorbikes 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.

The Municipal Chief Executive for Tano South, Mr. Collins Offinam Takyi, appreciated the interventions government has introduced in the agricultural sector.

He said the intervention would assist farmers acquire bumper harvest during farming seasons and emphasized that government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme has been recognised and supported by Canadian government and urged officers in the municipality to educate other residents in the area on government policies and programmes.

Mr. Offinam Takyi stressed that government has employed adequate extension workers in the Municipality and urged them to teach farmers the modern methods of agricultural practices to make farmers produce more foodstuffs.

He hinted that Tano South Municipal Assembly has collaborated with the Department of Agriculture to embark on oil palm nursery project; for which the seedlings have been distributed to farmers free of charge to boost agriculture activities in the municipality.

On government’s industrialisation policy, Mr. Offinam 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.