National Farmers Day in Ghana is celebrated every first Friday of December each year to recognise the contributions of farmers and fishers in the country. The day is observed as public holiday to recognize the importance of the agriculture sector in the socio-economic growth of Ghana and to pay respect to the 2% of Ghanaian citizens who have taken up the challenge to ensure food security.
Farmers Day was instituted in 1985 by the Ghana government after the industries showed a 30 percent growth in 1984. The first Farmers Day was celebrated in Osino, located in the Eastern Region of Ghana, where the drought was most severe.
The Celebration of Farmers day is to recognize and appraise farmers for their hard work and dedication. Ghanaian Farmer deserves the needed recognition as he/she daily risk the life for the larger interest of Ghanaians.
Much of Ghana's economy is related to agriculture , which is why the celebration is so extensive across the country.
We Congratulate Farmers on this special day and urge them to continue working hard in order to increase the food basket of the country.
The farmers in Ghana are faced with numerous challenges and notable amongst them are; lack of attention to irrigation development to enhance all round season farming, high transport cost of output, poor roads to farms, land acquisition ,lack of Government support and disease and pests control.
The Government of the day has paid little or no attention to the plight of farmers as their living conditions are in a deplorable state because their farm produce do not attract market and let alone talk of getting income from the sale of their produce.
There was a tremendous growth in the agriculture sector under the NDC Government led by H.E John Dramani Mahama and that was why in 2013, the agriculture contribution to GDP was 21.7 percent; 22 percent in 2014; 22.1 percent in 2015; 22.7 percent in 2016 and declined to 21.2 percent in 2017 and 19.7 percent in 2018 under the Poorly performed NPP government.
We are optimistic that, the next NDC government will continue with the halted free fertilizer distribution which is replaced with subsidized fertilizer by the NPP government which is only accessible to NPP card bearing members and stolen through the "planting for food and job" employees with impunity.
LongLive Farmers
LongLive Ghana
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