Farmers Day |
The 33rd National Farmers' Day (NFD) has been launched under the chairmanship of Hon. Ambrose Dery, Minister for the Interior.
The theme for this year's event is 'Planting for Food and Jobs'.
The Senior
Minister, Hon. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, who performed the launch ceremony,
pledged government's commitment to the development of the agriculture
sector.
Mr Osafo Maafo
noted, however, that achieving sustainable food security in Ghana within
the context of a phenomenal growth in population and increasing
unemployment was a challenge to the country's development.
He said in response
to the challenge and in an effort to boost productivity, the NPP
administration came with a renewed commitment by increasing the
budgetary allocation to the sector.
He stressed the
need for all to join hands in the retooling and remodelling process to
celebrate farmers for their immense contribution to national
development.
To that effect, Mr
Osafo-Maafo said, a committee, comprising technical experts from
relevant national organisations had been tasked to re-model the NFD
celebration.
He appealed to
strategic partners in the sector, institutions, oil companies, financial
institution and corporate entities to donate towards the 2017 NFD
event.
The senior Minister
assured famers of government's continued commitment to the distribution
of agriculture inputs and machinery at a subsidised price to enable
farmers and fisher folks increase their production.
Dr Owusu Afriyie
Akoto, Minister for Food and Agriculture, in his remarks, said the
Planting for Food and Jobs Policy, rolled out by the NPP administration
was expected to yield a bumper harvest this year.
Dr Akoto said the Ministry was, therefore, mapping out plans to support farmers.
These plans, he
said, included the acquisition of 27 warehouses belonging to the Buffer
Stock Company to be handed over to the Grains Development Board to
encourage private sector participation.
In addition, he
said, Farmer groups and stakeholders would also be engaged to ensure
that the government policies for the sector were properly carried out to
ensure food security.
In a statement,
Hon. Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, Minister for Aquaculture Development, urged
farmers and fishermen to use the upcoming event as a reference point to
stay away from the use of bad and illegal fishing methods in a quest to
boost the fishing sector, adding that the country's fish stock
continued to deplete as a result of bad fishing practices.
Dr Nurah Gyele,
Minister of State at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and Chairman
of the 2017 NFD Planning Committee, announced the award categories with
the corresponding benefits sponsors will derive.
Platinum Sponsor:
GH¢50,000.00 and above. This category will receive an acknowledgement in
the media, advertise company's logo on sponsors' billboard at the
durbar for telecast, and advertise company logo in event brochure,
plague and special certificate of sponsorship at the Sponsors' Awards
Night. The rests are full page colour print company advert with
felicitation message to farmers and fishers in the National Farmers' Day
brochure, photo opportunity for presentation of packages to the
Minister for Food and Agriculture for the media, and branding of some
sections of the principal route to and outside perimeter of durbar
ground.
Gold sponsor:
GH¢50,000.00-30,000.00 will have their company logo advertised in event
brochure and a half page colour print company advert with felicitation
message to farmers and fishers in the National Farmers Day Brochure.
Silver sponsors:
GH¢ 30,000.00 to 10,000.00 will also receive an acknowledgement in the
media; advertise company's logo on sponsor's billboard at the durbar
ground for telecast, special certificate of sponsorship at the Sponsors'
Awards Night and photo opportunity for presentation of packages to the
Minister for Food and Agriculture for the media.
Bronze sponsor
GH¢10,000.00 and below will receive an acknowledgement in the media, a
special certificate of sponsorship at the Sponsors' Awards Night as well
as photo opportunity for presentation of packages to the Minister for
Food and Agriculture for the media.
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