{"id":759837,"date":"2019-12-06T18:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/atwima-nwabiagya-south-honours-farmers-ghana-news-agency-gna\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T18:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:22:14","slug":"atwima-nwabiagya-south-honours-farmers-ghana-news-agency-gna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/06\/atwima-nwabiagya-south-honours-farmers-ghana-news-agency-gna\/","title":{"rendered":"Atwima-Nwabiagya South honours farmers | Ghana News Agency (GNA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">By<br \/>\nCharles Tawiah, GNA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Amanchia (Ash),<br \/>\nDec. 06, GNA \u2013 Mr Michael Osei, a 27-year-old farmer from Seide, was on Friday<br \/>\nadjudged the overall best farmer in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">At a ceremony<br \/>\norganized by the Municipal assembly to honour farmers at Amanchia, he took home<br \/>\na tricycle (Aboboyaa), two knapsack spraying machines, a radio set, a pair of<br \/>\nWellington boots, two pieces of wax print and a certificate for emerging as the<br \/>\nwinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Osei has a<br \/>\n20-acre cocoa farm, four-acre oil palm plantation, nine acres of maize, one<br \/>\nacre of rice and 26 rabbits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">In all, 17 farmers,<br \/>\nincluding seven women were honored at the ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr. Michael Awuku<br \/>\nAmoah, the Municipal Chief Executive, speaking at the ceremony commended the<br \/>\ngovernment for introducing the Planting for Food and Jobs initiative and said<br \/>\nit had helped increased food production in the municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">He said the assembly<br \/>\nhad distributed over 45,000 oil palm seedlings to farmers free of charge to<br \/>\nhelp boost oil palm production to support the planting for export and rural<br \/>\ndevelopment programme in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr. Awuku Amoah<br \/>\nstressed the need for Ghanaians to eat what was grown in the country to help<br \/>\nboost the incomes of farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Daniel Peprah,<br \/>\nthe Municipal Director of Agriculture urged the farmers to adopt modern farming<br \/>\npractices to increase their yields and improve on their incomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Mr Osei, on his part<br \/>\nappealed to the youth in the area to choose farming instead of galamsey<br \/>\n(illegal mining), since farming was more sustainable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA\">GNA<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles Tawiah, GNA Amanchia (Ash), Dec. 06, GNA \u2013 Mr Michael Osei, a 27-year-old farmer from Seide, was on Friday adjudged the overall best farmer in the Atwima-Nwabiagya South Municipality. 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