UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR IS ASHANTI BEST FARMER

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A 50-year old Lecturer of the Business University of Costa Rica, Professor Alan Kwasi Yeboah, emerged as the 2016 Best Farmer in the Ashanti region after 13 years in mixed agricultural production. 

Prof. Yeboah’s Mena Adoma Farms  at Akuakrom in the Sekyere East district currently employs 39 people who are working on the hatchery, mini abattoir, mini irrigation dam, aquaculture, cold store, feed mill, quails, poultry, coconut, ostrich, turkeys and a mixed crop farm. 

For his prize, Prof. Yeboah received among other booties, a tricycle, a wheelbarrow, motorized sprayer, a pumping machine, four pairs of wellington boots, three cutlasses and a Certificate. 

Twenty-three other outstanding individuals and groups along the agricultural value chain, including farmer based organizations, marketers and agro processors, were also recognized and honoured at the Regional level awards.

 Many other equally hardworking farmers and others in the agribusiness were also appreciated and given various prizes at the Ahafo Ano South district level awards which was jointly done with the Ashanti regional awards at Pokukrom. 

At the district level awards, 38-year old Agnes Aniwaa Osei of Gyaeakontabuo was adjudged the overall Best Farmer. 

She also received as her prize items such as a bicycle, knapsack sprayer, wellington boots, bars of washing soap and a Certificate. All the other award winners were also given prizes.

 In an address, the Ashanti Regional Minister, John Alexander Ackon noted with satisfaction that rice production is gaining serious attention in the Ashanti region with about 20 out of the 30 administrative districts now involved in the cultivation of the commodity. 

This has helped to increase its yield from two point-three-six to four point-six-nine tonnes per hectare in the last few years. He therefore encourage the youth to go into rice production since it is very lucrative.
                                      

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