Additionally, the Authority had also distributed 25,000 cashew seedlings to farmers in the Municipality since 2018, Mr Quattara stated when addressing the Municipal celebration of the 40th National Farmers Day held at Twumkrom.

He said phase two of the government's flagship Planting for Food and Jobs (PfFJs) programme had commenced focusing on vegetables, grains including soyabeans, sorghum as well as cassava, plantain, cocoyam and yam production.

As the dry season sets in, the Chief Executive urged farmers in the area to endeavour to construct fire belts around to protect their farms and also remained cautious about the way and manner they handled naked fires in their farms.

Mr Quattara also appealed to the farmers to adopt and follow scientific and modern methods of farming, to mitigate the impact of climate change, and advised them to heed to the advice from Agriculture Extension Agents too.

He said the Municipal Directorate of Agriculture had also received a pick-up vehicle, 14 motorbikes, while agriculture officers and extension agents were also undergoing training to help improve food productivity.

Some deserving farmers in the municipality were honoured and received prizes ranging from refrigerators, spraying machines, cutlasses, and radio cassette players, pieces of wax print, weedicides and fertilizers.