President John Mahama yesterday, spent the 2014 World Food Day with the farming community of Branam in the Brong Ahafo Region where the United Conglomerate Farms is cultivating a 623 acre maize farm.
The target, according to the Farm Managers, is 1,000 acres, and they are looking with the support of the chiefs and people to cultivate other crops on the 10,000 acres released by the chiefs to the company.
Adjacent to this farm, the National Service Scheme also has a 100-acre farm on the previous State Farms Land.
President Mahama, a son of a rice farmer and a farmer himself, stunned everybody when he went on a tour of the farm driving a farm tractor and explaining the processes to the audience.
Addressing the chief of Branam and his people, Mr. Mahama said farming was no longer just a heritage from the country’s forefathers, but big business.
“There is a lot of money to be made in farming. If we are serious with farming it can produce a lot of jobs to cut down on the unemployment most of our young people complain of. After all if you leave this area and go to Accra all that you can do is to hawk by the road side and yet we have a vast expanse of land readily available for cultivation”, he noted.
Source: Presidency
