{"id":265041,"date":"2016-11-04T06:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T06:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265041"},"modified":"2016-11-04T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T06:23:44","slug":"ghana-marks-32nd-national-farmers-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=265041","title":{"rendered":"Ghana marks 32nd National Farmers&#8217; day today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will today mark the 32<sup>nd<\/sup> edition of the National Farmers\u2019 Day\u00a0by rewarding farmers who have been outstanding in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<p>In all, some 90 farmers will be honoured for their immense contribution towards the development of the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be taking place at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Flagbearer of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet will embark on a float with some farmers in the Greater Accra Region as part of activities to mark the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s Communications Director, Issifu Kadir Abdul Rauf, \u00a0told Citi News the CPP&#8217;s decision to participate in the programme is the party&#8217;s special way of honouring the country\u2019s farmers.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the party will use the importance of the day to explain its agricultural policy to farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The National Farmers Day celebration was established by the\u00a0Ministry of Food and Agriculture to honour the nation\u2019s hard working\u00a0farmers.<\/p>\n<p>On the first Friday of every December, farmers who excel in their respective fields are awarded with certificates and other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes are awarded to deserving farmers and fishers in order of best practices and outputs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will today mark the 32nd edition of the National Farmers\u2019 Day\u00a0by rewarding farmers who have been outstanding in their respective fields. In all, some 90 farmers will be honoured for their immense contribution towards the development of the agricultural sector. The event will be taking place at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region. Meanwhile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":265042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13362,3],"class_list":["post-265041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-farmers-day","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/265042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}