Wa, Oct. 12, GNA - A 14-member Upper West Regional Planning Committee for this year's National Farmers Day celebration was on Friday inaugurated in Wa.

The committee to plan activities of the celebrations scheduled for December 7, has Madam Winifred Bawa Dy-Yakah, Deputy Upper West Regional Minister as its Chairperson.

The 28th Farmers Day is on the theme: "Ghana at 50 - Progress and Challenges for Sustainable Agricultural Development". Mr George Hikah Benson, Upper West Regional Minister, inaugurating the committee said the event was unique to the region as Ghana was celebrating its Golden Jubilee of self-administration. He said next year, the people of Upper West Region would be celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the creation of the region and urged the committee to work diligently toward a success farmers' day. The Upper West Region was created from the then Upper Region by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) administration in 1983. Mr Benson urged people in the region to use the farmers' day to market the region to attract tourists to earn more money for the local people and the nation.

Madam Dy-Yakah, gave the assurance that the committee would work hard to achieve good results for a successful realization of the celebration in the region.

Mr Clement Eledi, Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture and Chairman of National Farmers Day Planning Committee, assured the committee of the necessary logistics to facilitate its work.