Regional News of Sunday, 18 April 2021Source: Information Service DepartmentThe Bono East regional directorate of the Department of Agriculture is assisting rice and maize farmers and farmer’s groups in the Atebubu-Amantin, Sene West, Pru East and Pru West districts of the Bono East region to sign ‘memorandum of understanding’ with bulk buyers referred to as aggregators. She said this will help prevent glut in production, improve the well-being of farmers due to guaranteed incomes, attract the youth into farming and help solve the high unemployment rate in the country. At meetings in Atebubu in the Atebubu-Amantin municipality and Prang in the Pru West district, farmers and aggregators discussed issues of truthfulness, trust and the adherence to standards in production in order to meet the requirements of exporters, manufacturers and consumers. Mr. Bernard Marfo, the regional extension officer of the department took the gatherings through the contract document which spells out the obligations of each party to the agreement namely: farmers, aggregators and the department of agriculture. Present at the meetings were Messrs. Mathew Opoku, Nambe Jababu and Thomas Langa the directors of agriculture for the Sene West, Pru East and Pru West districts respectively.
