8 GNA-Thirty-Seven farmers and fishermen from the Effutu Municipality and Awutu-Senya district were honoured at the 24th National Farmers Day celebration jointly organised by the two Assemblies at Awutu Beraku.
Pastor Stephen Owusu Asante from Kasoa won the overall district best farmer award and was awarded with a television set, a bicycle, wax print, sound system and a spraying machine.
The rest award winners were given cutlasses, wax prints, radio cassette players, Fishing nets, Willington boots, knapsack sprayer, insecticides and certificates.
The District Director of Food and Agriculture, Mr. Gershong Woadzirah commended the farmers that, through their hard work the area did not experience any food shortage.
Mr. Woadzirah, said the ministry had introduced three new varieties of high yielding cassava to some selected farmers for multiplication.
These are Bankyehema and Akabom that yield between 34-49 tons per hectare.
The Municipal Chief Executive for Effutu, Mr. Robert Andrew Ghunney warned owners of domestic animals who leave them to destroy properties of others to desist from that before the law deals with them.
Touching on the elections, the MCE urged the youth to be very careful not to allow themselves to be used by politician to create electoral chaos.
The DCE for Awutu-Senya, Mr. Solomon Abbam-Quaye appealed to the people in the area to participate massively in the general elections.
Nai Ncharkey Okine VII, a sub-chief of Awutu Beraku, who chaired the function entreated farmers to take advantage of the free compulsory education to send their children to school to enable them to become literate farmers or farm managers in future.
He appealed to the government to rehabilitate feeder roads in the area to facilitate food evacuation to buying centres.