Kofi Ahovi

 The 2022 National Best Farmer, Oheneba Nana Yaw Sarpong Siriboe I, Oheneba Nana Yaw Sarpong Siriboe I, has launched an initiative to encourage the youth to take up agriculture as their main occupation. Dubbed “Rethink Agriculture”, the initiative aims at reshaping the perception and motivative the youth to venture into agriculture. According to him, the initiative also seeks to inspire the youth to view agriculture as a dynamic business beaming with potentials. The rethink programme is a clarion call urging our youth to perceive agriculture and the opportunities along its value chain as more than a traditional vocation but an avenue of boundless opportunities,” he stated. He said the “Rethink Agriculture” programme is also expected to equip the youth with the tools,  knowledge, information, education and skills that will not only help sustain agricultural legacy but transform it into a force that drives innovation and economic growth. He further said that though he was a trai...

The Overlord of Dagbon, Ndan Ya-Na Abukari II, has praised the National Best Farmer for 2021, 44-year-old Alhaji Mohammed Mashud, who hails from Mion District in the Northern Region. He said the award was for the people of Dagbon, thus urging the youth in Dagbon township and the country as a whole to emulate the achievement of the national best farmer. This award is for the people of Dagbon, and we call on the youth of Dagbon especially, and Ghana in general to emulate him." Ya-Na Abukari II made the commendation when the Minister of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Dr Akoto Owusu Afriyie, called on him at his Gbewa Palace in Dagbon in the Northern Region yesterday. Dr Akoto Owusu Afriyie is on a week-tour of the five regions in northern Ghana, and it forms part of phase three of his annual agricultural tour across the country. Ya-Na Abukari II assured the agriculture minister of the Dagbon Traditional Council’s readiness to work with MoFA to ensure that the government’s vision for th...

The Agriculture Development Bank PLC (ADB) has officially presented a cheque of five hundred and seventy thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢570,000.000) to Solomon Kwadwo Kusi, the 2020 National Best Farmer on the celebration of the farmers day held at Techiman in the Bono East Region. According to ADB, it received an agribusiness proposal seeking funds from the bank by the said farmer through the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and after careful study the Agribusiness division was impressed at the document and indicated that part of the money will be used to purchase and install a cocoa drying house, expand most of his existing farms to enable him create more jobs. Besides, three boreholes will be constructed as well as the upgrade of his agricultural mechanization center and the adoption of improved agricultural methods, propagation materials, fertilizers, animal feed, among others. Speaking at the handing over ceremony in Accra, the Managing Director of ADB, Dr. John Kofi Mensah congratulate...