By Eunice Tekie Tei, GNA
Abitifi (E/R), May 13, GNA - Mr. Isaac Mensah, Kwahu East Director of Agriculture said the district recorded low patronage of the government's Planting for Food and Jobs'(PFJ) programme for 2018.
He said it was due to the fact that farmers were unable to pay for their indebtedness to the scheme from the previous year’s support that was offered to them.
He explained that, in 2017, the department recorded a total of 1,800 beneficiary farmers but the number dropped to 1,152 in 2018 making a difference of 648.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Abitifi in the Kwahu East District in the Eastern Region, he said his outfit supplied to maize, tomato and onion seedlings to famers and farmers were expected to plant 1,200 acres of maize, eight hectares of tomatoes and one hectare of onions in support of the programme.
Mr Mensah said the government also supplied 40 metric tonnes of urea and 14.5 metric tonnes of NPK fertilizers to the district for farmers to acquire them at a subsidized rate.
He said the department intended to include pepper and cabbage to the seeds for the programme to enable other farmers also have access to the project.
Mr. Mensah called on the beneficiary farmers of the PFJ programme to do well to settle their indebtedness in order to keep the programme going.
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