With less than a month to the National Farmers Day celebration, the National Coordinator of the celebration, Philip Osei Nkrumah, is appealing to Corporate Ghana to support the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) to honour deserving farmers and fisher folks in the country.
“We have to raise budget to support the winners in all the 261 districts, and also at the national level, so we need Corporate Ghana because the government cannot do it alone,” he said.
Speaking in an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr Nkrumah observed that even though the event was starting on November 30, 2026, the ministry had received donations from a few companies, “the reason why we are appealing to Corporate Ghana for urgent support.”
Weeklong celebration
The fair will run from Monday, November 30, to Friday, December 4, 2026, when it will climax with the crowning of the National Best Farmers and Fisherfolk.
The event, to be held at the University of Energy and Natural Resource Park, Sunyani, in the Bono Region, will be celebrated on the general theme, "Our farmers, Our food, Our future."
The celebration will focus on strengthening local food production, safeguarding national food security, building resilient agricultural value chains, and securing long-term economic development.
Mr Nkrumah said that preparations had been good, but acknowledged that Corporate Ghana’s support had been dwindling for some time now.
Appeal
“This year, the support is not coming; we have been following up, and we need them to come in to enable us to plan and plan properly.
“We have been following up with Corporate Ghana; they tell you they will come, but we are less than a month into the event,” Mr Nkrumah stated.
He said the practice where people came through at the last minute often affected planning and urged those yet to donate to do so early and get the needed exposure, and added that donations during the week-long celebration did not always attract attention as all those who mattered were always at the event grounds.
Mr Nkrumah also appealed to the media to support the Ministry in generating public enthusiasm for the annual event, which seeks to honour “our hardworking farmers and fisherfolk”.
“We need help, and we also need the support of the media to appeal to Corporate Ghana to come to the aid of our farmers,” Mr Nkrumah appealed.
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