Ketu South nuclear power plant candidate inaugurates tractor service for farmers

Regional news for Monday, September 14, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-09-14

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David Tiahno Quarshie, the New Patriotic Party (PNP) parliamentary candidate for Ketu South has launched two farm tractor services to help subsidize the cost of farming in the township.

The tractor service under the ‘Ketu South Shall Prosper Initiative’, which aims to improve productivity, would work for the township’s farmers with a 50 percent subsidy.

Mr. Quarshie, speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate a Committee for Tractor Service, said the gesture was his social responsibility and contribution to the growth of agriculture in the area.

He said that being a farmer himself, he understood farmers’ problems and hoped to do more to reduce their burden, revealing that in 2016, he provided seedlings to farmers in the municipality to benefit from his agricultural business.

William Ayiteyvi, Municipal Director of Agriculture, stressed the importance of a tractor service for farmers and thanked Mr. Quarshie for the gesture.

He said the support would motivate many more people to move from subsistence to commercial farming, as well as those who may have been forced to leave farming due to the high costs involved in returning to farming.

Torgbui Fianu II, who was chairing it, thanked him for granting his request for a tractor service in the township and prayed that God bless God that he succeeds in his attempt to represent the people of Ketu South in Parliament for help address other issues in some countries. communities like water and electricity.

Amewuga Datsomor, chairman of the five-member Tractor Service Committee, said the group will serve all farmers who demand its service without discrimination.

Some farmers the Ghana News Agency (GNA) spoke to could not hide their enthusiasm for the availability of a tractor service in the municipality.
Ms Sefenya Afaglo, a farmer, said that now she could farm on a much larger land at a reduced cost and earn more profit.

Mrs. Rose Ahede, a farmer, described farm tractor service in the area as a big respite and said they were paying around GH ¢ 100.00-GH ¢ 150.00 per acre of farm land for the services of a tractor and now they would pay half of that. cost.