Tema Mayor presenting a certificate to the Overall Best Farmer
The TEMA
TRADITIONAL Council has expressed disgust over illegal and unregulated fishing
by foreign trawlers in the country.
According
to the council, the practice is decimating the country’s fish populations and
affecting the economy.
Nii Adjetey
Agbo II, Mankralo of the Tema Traditional Council who poured out his anger
during 35th Farmers’ Day celebration in Tema, of the Greater Accra Region,
feared the illegal activities especially by industrial trawlers, could deplete the
country’s fish stock.
He appealed
to government to pay much attention to fishing activities in the area since
fishing is far ahead of crop farming in the district.
Seven
farmers and fishermen were awarded by the Tema Metropolitan Assembly for their
outstanding contribution to agriculture in the metropolis.
The seven
farmers made up of best livestock farmers, best crop farmers, best fisher
farmers and best extension officer, were given certificates, household items,
farming implements among others.
Mohammed
Eshun, a Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) station officer around the
Tema Fishing Harbour emerged the overall best farmer in Tema, receiving a motor
tricycle, plasma television, knapsack sprayer, a wheelbarrow, wax print, five
pieces of cutlasses, bottles of agro chemicals, certificate among others.
He is into the
cultivation of maize, cassava, sugarcane, pepper, onion, okro, plantain, among
others. He also rears livestock such as sheep, local birds, snails, crabs,
guinea fowl, etc.
Dora
Ankrah, the Tema Metropolitan Director of Agriculture, said crop production
performed creditably compared to the previous year as the fertilizer subsidy
under the government’s flagship “Planting for Food and Jobs” programme saw
significant increase.
Metropolitan
Chief Executive (MCE) of Tema, Felix Mensah Annan-La, said that 700 farmers in
the metropolis had benefited from the subsidized hybrid maize seeds, Open
Pollinated Variety (OPV) seeds as well as vegetable seeds.
Also, he stated that 1,072 farmers had benefited from 4,500 bags of NPK and Urea fertilizers with other interventions rolled out through Adepa, E-master and Agoo to the infestation of the fall army worm in the metropolis.
From Vincent Kubi, Tema
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