Rainbow Agrosciences and the International Water Management Institute have donated an inputs and cash to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to support the Farmers’ Day Celebration.
The Rainbow Agrosciences presented an input worth Two hundred and seventy thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢270,000) and cash cheque of Thirty thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢30,000) totalling One hundred thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢100,000). Whilst the International Water Management Institute donated One hundred bags of organic fertilizers.
60 boxes of different inputs namely, weedicides, fungicides, insecticides and Akateking that is widely and popularly used by the cocoa farmers.
During the presentation at the Ministry’s forecourt, the Technical Director of Rainbow Agrosciences, Mr. Georgr Selasie Ocloo said Rainbow Agrosciences has partnered with the ministry’s flagship programme, Crop Clinic, where they work with the extension officers to educate the farmers on good agronomical practices.
With such collaboration he said things have been structured to the extent of reaching every farmer and every mile where production take place, therefore, it is their responsibility to contribute to the happiness and rewards of the gallant farmers.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and its partner, Jakora have donated 100 bags of Fortifer compost: an organic fertilizer to support the Farmers’ Day Celebration.
To underscore the objective of the donation to the farmers, the IWMI rep. said the institute and Jakora is to partner with the Ministry of Agric to support the farmers to have safe agriculture practices for healthy production for the nation.
The rep. underlined the significant patronage of organic fertilizer. “It is important to make agriculture practice environmentally sustainable and environmentally friendly. That is why we are departing from inorganic fertilizer to compost fertilizer.”
Receiving these donations, the Minister of Agric, Hon. Eric Opoku commended the donners for such gestures to appreciate the hard work of the Ghanaian farmers.
“We are grateful for this opportunity, and I want to assure you that whatever you have given will go straight to the farmers because they are the beneficiaries, we are all surviving because of their hard work and when we empower them properly, they can deliver to the satisfaction of everybody,” he added.
He assured of deepened partnership and called for furtherance assistance as the need arise.
He called all the stakeholders to come on board to make the celebration a success. “We all have one responsibility, that is to ensuring affordability of food so that everybody wherever you are located in the country can have unimpeded access to food,” Hon. Minister added.
