Mr Paul Levin Gyato, Nkwanta North District
Chief Executive, has called on farmers and fisher folks to embrace Government's interventions and programmes in order to increase their yields.
He said perceiving agriculture as a business enterprise was enough motivation towards meeting policy benchmarks in food production, livestock
and agro-processing.
Mr Gyato, who told the Ghana News Agency in an interview on Friday, challenged farmers to delve into large scale mechanized agriculture
production rather than the pervasive subsistence type for guaranteed food security and rapid economic growth.
He called on governments globally to work at reducing the over one billion hungry people worldwide by about 70 percent.
Mr Gyato said despite natural and human resources endowment, majority of people in developing countries continue to wallow in hunger and poverty.
He said government had therefore repositioned itself to rapidly modernize agriculture for food security and wealth creation.
Mr Gyato said government intended to improve the Youth in Agriculture module under the National Youth Employment, the school farm projects countrywide as well as procure tractors to boost agriculture locally in the district.
He said under the programme, seven groups were cultivating 209 acres of lowland rice with 10 farmers raising 100 sheep under the credit-in-kind policy.
Mr Gyato said 300 cockerels and 200 guinea fowls were to be sold to farmers to rear in the district to augment their shortage.
He said approximately 625 acres of land would be cropped soon adding that the district's consignment of fertilizers had been delivered.
Mr Gyato said the Assembly was working at establishing a mechanisation centre with tractor pool to assist farmers, who would want to plough, to increase production to ensure food security.