Pharmacist Is Best Farmer In BA

Mr Kwasi Oppong Ababio (left) presenting the award to Mr Joe Bennet for being adjudged Best Farmer of Brong Ahafo for 2009.

A-50-year-old pharmacist has been adjudged the 2009 best Sunyani Municipal farmer at a ceremony held at Nkrankrom near Sunyani.

For his prize Mr Joe Bennet, proprietor of Joe Bennet Pharmacy in Sunyani received a motor bike, a spraying machine, a piece of cloth, a carton of key bar soap, rain coat, a number of machetes as well as a pair of Wellington boots.

The municipal best farmer who had been in farming for the past 10 years is the owner of 55 acres of cocoa farm, six fish ponds, 35 acres of oil palm plantation, a number of cattle, sheep, goats and a 20 acre orange farm.

Twenty-one other deserving farmers received awards raging from machetes, bicycles, television sets, spraying machines and Wellington boots.

Presenting the awards, the Municipal Chief Executive, Kwasi Oppong Ababio advised the farmers to work hard towards ensuring national food security.

He urged the unemployed youth in the municipality to regard farming as an economic venture even while the government did all it could to create more jobs. 

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