{"id":235069,"date":"2024-10-19T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/19\/corporate-bodies-support-farmers-day\/"},"modified":"2024-10-19T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:54:57","slug":"corporate-bodies-support-farmers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/19\/corporate-bodies-support-farmers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Bodies Support Farmers\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Yaw Frimpong Addo (middle) in a group photograph with donors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A NUMBER of corporate bodies have made donations to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in support of this year\u2019s National Farmers\u2019 Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Four corporate organisations \u2013 New Okaff Industries Ltd, Rainbow Agro Sciences, Yara and Wynca Sunshine \u2013 have made donations comprising agro-based products and various sums of money, cumulatively worth millions of Ghana cedis to the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the items on behalf of the Ministry, Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, Yaw Frimpong Addo, conveyed his appreciation to the donor agencies for coming to support the Ministry in celebrating and rewarding Ghana\u2019s hardworking farmers.<\/p>\n<p>He said in addition to the four companies that came to make donations, several others had called in to notify the Ministry of their intentions to support and that hopefully in the coming days, those would be done.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the date for the ceremony, he said while no official date had been set yet, the Ministry was considering observing the day in November and would communicate it once an appropriate date has been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Ministry, together with farmers, are currently engaged in \u201ca lot of irrigation\u201d to help combat the impact of climate change on Ghana\u2019s agriculture sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials from New Okaff Industries, Ltd., led by the Commericial Director, Kwasi Boamah Adomako, donated a amount of GH\u00a210,000 in addition to other products including insecticides and fungicides all estimated to be around GH\u20b5100,000.<\/p>\n<p>George Selasi Ocloo, Business and Technical Manager at Rainbow Agro Sciences also led his team to donate a cash sum and products estimated to be GH\u20b5104,000.<\/p>\n<p>Wynca Sunshine also presented items worth GH\u20b5115,000 while fertilizer producers, Yara Ghana Ltd., presented a cheque of GH\u20b525,000 to the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Nii Adjei Mensahfio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaw Frimpong Addo (middle) in a group photograph with donors \u00a0 A NUMBER of corporate bodies have made donations to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) in support of this year\u2019s National Farmers\u2019 Day celebration. 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