Senior police officer adjudged best farmer

A senio police officer was on Friday crowned the overall municipal best farmer in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) municipality of the Central Region (CR).

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Christopher Abakah, according to the municipal director of Agriculture, Madam Victoria Dansowa Abankwa, was adjudged the overall best farmer in the municipality considering his hard work, compliance to the modernised farming methods and quantity of his commodities.

According to her, ACP Abakah had among other commodities, 10 land acres of citrus, 28 acres of cocoa, 10acres of water melon, eight acres of cassava, nine acre maize farm,10 sheep, 3,430 layers, 10,500 cat fishes, 10 turkeys, 100 snails, 25 goats and 10 turkeys.

He was awarded with a tricycle(aboboyaa), two knapsack sprayers, two pairs of Wellington boots, full piece of cloth, three cutlasses, four litres of weedicide and a certificate of merit.

In an interview with the media, the 56year old police officer, indigene of Dompuase; a suburb of Komenda in the municipality, but stationed in Kumasi in the Ashanti region, thanked the municipal agriculture directorate for noticing and acknowledging his efforts.
According to him, he ventured into farming in order for him not rely only on his pension salaries when he retires from active service so initially he was practicing it anyhow until he went into contact with the officers of the agriculture directorate few years ago. He explained, the involvement of the officers had contributed to his success.

Mr Abakah said he was not going to relent on his work but would instead work harder to be the regional best in the near future.

He used the opportunity to called on the teeming youth to venture into agriculture and also urged the agric directorate to expand their farming education to all farmers in the municipality for them to become known to the new and modern methods of farming.

This year’s is the 37th edition since its inception and KEEA Municipal’s was held at Benyadze, a suburb of Eguafo and it was under the theme “planting for food and jobs:consolidating food systems in Ghana”.

In all, 14 individuals, organizations and institutions were awarded.

The national and the regional ones would be celebrated on December 3, 2021 at Cape Coast of the Central Region.

Story: Kojo Ata Kakrah Abrowah// anthonyabrowah@gmail.com

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