The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Central Region has lavished praise and congratulated the farmers and fishermen on the occasion of the celebration of this year’s National Farmers Day on Friday.
The annual event is a testament to the immense contribution made by the industrious farmers and fishermen, especially in the central region, and the pivotal role they play in the nation’s growth and development.
According to Prof. Richard Kofi Asiedu, who is the Central Regional NDC Chairman, the party aims to achieve food self-sufficiency through a policy that supports large-scale commercial agricultural production.
In a very captivating message to commemorate National Farmer’s Day, Prof.Richard Kofi Asiedu said the next NDC administration under John Mahama will respond to global trends of running a 24-hour economy where all in the farming value chain in the region will have the opportunity to improve on viable farming and fishing methods to make their jobs more attractive, lucrative, and responsive to national development.
He pointed out the one key failed promise of this current administration: to construct a fishing harbor at Elimina and Cape Coast. He added that there are numerous unfulfilled related promises made by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region on farming and fishing.
He stressed that the next NDC government will anchor its manifesto and campaign pledges on feasible policies and programs to help alleviate poverty and the untold hardships the current administration has imposed on already-suffering Ghanaians.
He said this annual celebration was instituted by the NDC under the late former President Jerry Johh Rawling’s administration and has come to stay as a significant and equally important day to acknowledge the good-yielding efforts of the teeming farmers and fishermen who feed the country through their services.
“We are proud of our political ideology, which birthed this Farmer’s Day and has come to stay perpetually,” he reiterated.
