PPP woos farmers in Wa Central
The Wa Central parliamentary candidate for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), James K. Sohimnye, has pledged to promote agriculture within the constituency if he is elected at the December polls.
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He said the PPP was convinced that agriculture should be given priority in the national development agenda because of the employment potential it offers to the youth in particular and the advantages it offers the nation, particularly on the export market.
One such action, according to him, would be to institute some form of insurance policy for farm produce in order to guarantee farmers their earnings once they produce for the market.
Mr Sohimnye said this when he presented 150 bags of fertiliser and cartons of weedicides and insecticides to selected farmers from the Wa Central Constituency to support their activities .
The items cost GH¢20,000 in total, but he said he would extend the gesture to other needy farmers in the area.
Hard-working farmers
The ceremony took place at the party’s office in Wa, and party youth clad in PPP shirts also attended it.
Meanwhile party officials have said beneficiary farmers were selected by a team which assessed the challenges that confronted individual farmers from 21 farming communities, with the parliamentary candidate emphasising that “if our members are among the needy farmers we would still give them, and if anyone decides to join us it won’t change our feelings towards them”.
Mr Sohimnye said it was a privilege “to work with hard-working farmers, some of whom are faced with difficult situations every day in their efforts to make some living.”
He said the party would prioritise agriculture should its presidential candidate, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, win the December 7 polls.
“This is only a sign of what is to come when we win power in December,” he said.
Mr Sohimnye said the difficulties that confronted farmers had made farming unattractive to the youth, and that sound policies were needed to make it an attractive economic venture.
