General News of Monday, 20 May 2019Source: Graphic.com.ghGHC2m released for President’s Farmers’ Scholarship SchemeKingsley Agyemang - Registrar of the Scholarship SecretariatThe Ministry of Finance has released GHc2 million to the Scholarship Secretariat to implement the first phase of the Presidential Farmers Scholarship Scheme in September this year. It will cover 120 people, made up of the 24 award winners of the 2018 National Best Farmers Awards, two of their children or wards and two of their workers. According to him, the objective was to help the farmers improve on their farming practices to eventually improve on their production. National Best FarmerThe 2018 National Best Farmer, Mr James Obeng Boateng, expressed gratitude to the government for instituting the scholarship scheme, which he said was needed to help more farmers improve on their farming activities. He said the scholarship would be tailored to the needs of the farmers and would not be like the normal scholarship that was purely academic.

Source: GhanaWeb May 20, 2019 08:37 UTC