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Impression
Sunday, March 24, 2019
By
Eunice Tekie Tei, RNG
Donkorkrom (E / R),
March 24, GNA – Mr. Philip Ebenezer Azidoku, North of Kwahu Afram Plains
Director of Agriculture District, said that his training had planned to
distribute to farmers this year 200,000 cashew plants in the district.
He said that it was a way
promote government plantations for export and rural development
Program.
Speaking in a
interview with the Ghanaian news agency in Donkorkrom, he said this year
a mbadive increase and distribution of cashew plants because more
the farmers are committed to ensuring the success of the program.
He said about 80,000
Seedlings were raised for farmers last year and 98% of them, which
their farms have been well maintained, allowing the plants to begin to bear
flowers after six months of planting.
Mr. Azidoku said a long time
drought and bush fires were some of the challenges that some farmers have
faced last year and early this year and urged them to take advantage of
the PERD program to register in order to receive cashew
seedlings.
Mr. Azidoku so
called on investors to badociate with the Afram Plains Agriculture Department.
North District Assembly, which sells and buys cashew products after the harvest.
This, he explained
help farmers produce on a large scale to help create jobs for others,
especially young people from the region.
GNA
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