Business News of Thursday, 7 November 2019Source: Ghananewsagency.org12, 808 urban agricultural farmers receive vegetable seedsSome farmers attending to their produceA total of 12,808 urban agricultural farmers in the Kumasi Metropolis have been provided with a variety of high-yielding vegetable seeds for cultivation under the 'Planting for Food and Jobs (PfJ) programme. In all, 29,597 sachets of vegetable seeds, ranging from tomatoes, pepper, onions, cabbage, carrots, cucumber to lettuce, have been provided to the beneficiary farmers. Mr Assibey-Antwi, who made this known at the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly's (KMA) 'Meet-the-Press', said the government's PfJ programme had received encouraging patronage from the people. He advised that the youth availed themselves of the PfJ programme to help bring improvement in their lives. Beneficiary farmers, he said, should make good use of materials they were provided with for increased productivity.

Source: GhanaWeb November 07, 2019 12:08 UTC