Farmers told to rekindle efforts to produce more food

Tamale, Sept. 7, GNA - The Seed Producers Association of Ghana (SPAG) has called on farmers to put in more efforts to boost food production in the country to feed the people and help reduce poverty.

The Association noted that the eradication of poverty was the greatest challenge facing the country and its fledging democracy and therefore urged farmers to redouble their efforts to produce more to feed the nation.

Osofo Patrick Adintingah Apullah, National President of the SPAG made the call in a press release issued to the Ghana News Agency in Tamale on Monday to congratulate Muslim farmers and the Muslim community in general on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan (fasting).

The release appealed to Muslims to lead good moral lives in the holy month for the youth to emulate, adding that fasting was an act of Allah that should be treated with the deserved holiness and seriousness.

It also called on Muslims to use the Ramadan period to preach peace, unity and love and pray that Allah have mercy and bring the wayward back to full spirituality and good moral values.

“There is the urgent need for us farmers to seriously recognize and acknowledge that we have powerful tools to reduce poverty by the year 2015 and this can be done only through the projecting of agricultural productivity, which is a basic economic tool for Ghana's economic liberation and the alleviation of poverty”, the release said.

It called on journalists to help promote equitable economic growth in agriculture to ensure food security, job creation and measures to facilitate the transfer of modern technologies in agriculture.

GNA