Mr Kwame Awuku-Adu, the Managing Director of Delawin Farms Limited, was adjudged the Best Farmer within the Kpone Katamanso Municipal during the Farmers Day Celebration at Appolonia, near Oyibi, in the Greater Accra Region.

Mr Awuku-Adu, who started farming in 1981, rears 40,000 chicken, processes meat and employs 10 workers.

For his prize, he received a tricycle, wellington boots, a wheelbarrow and fertilizer.

Mr Seth Oklie of Katamanso took the second position while 72-year-old Madam Evelyn Tokolin of Kpone placed third.

The Best Crop Farmer was won by Mr Matthew Segloh, the Best Agro Processor went to Juliana Odzor while the Best Fish Processor Award was won by Madam Emelia Tetteh of Kpone.

This year’s celebration was on the theme: “Agriculture: Moving Ghana Beyond Aid”.

Mr Solomon Tetteh Appiah, Kpone Katamanso Municipal Chief Executive, said the theme was inspired by the Government’s vision to transform and modernise agriculture and make Ghana a self-sufficient economy.

He said agriculture was the mainstay of the economy and played a vital role in the lives of Ghanaians.

Mr Appiah said it was for that reason that government, seeing the role agriculture played in the economy, launched the ‘Planting for Food and Jobs, and the One Village One Dam to boost food production and whip up interest of the youth in agriculture.

He said government was initiating the construction of 50 warehouses under the National Buffer Stock initiative, to enhance the storage of agricultural produce.

He said government would soon introduce the ‘Rearing for Food and Jobs,’ to enhance livestock production and urged all to take advantage of it.

Madam Augustina Egyiri, the Kpone Katamanso Municipal Director of Agriculture, appealed to the Government to provide the Municipality with logistics to enhance their work.

Nii Nuertey Amobi II, the Chief of Appolonia, who chaired the function, commended the farmers for working tirelessly to sustain food production.

He appealed to traditional rulers to release lands for farming activities to boost agricultural production.