{"id":414098,"date":"2018-03-29T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=414098"},"modified":"2018-03-29T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T10:27:54","slug":"agric-will-die-without-more-extension-officers-nanumba-south-agric-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/agric-will-die-without-more-extension-officers-nanumba-south-agric-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture will die without more extension officers – Agric officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
A District Agric Officer in the Nanumba South District of the Northern Region, Sulemana Bawa Abdul Rahman, has warned that Ghana\u2019s agric sector may collapse by in the near future if sustainable measures are not put in place to grow the sector.<\/p>\n
He attributed his prediction to the fact that many veteran personnel in the sector are either retiring or dying without being replaced.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a stakeholders\u2019 forum organised by Grameen Ghana in the Nanumba South District, he noted that government is making no attempt to recruit graduates from the Agric Colleges to replace exiting staff.<\/p>\n
Sulemana Rahman made this known during a stakeholders\u2019 forum organised by Grameen Ghana in the Nanumba South District.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgric will die, no staff no replacement, you will even write to the assembly and send it to Accra, nothing happens, the staff strength has dwindled. The Agric Colleges have produced the staff, they are in the house and are not employed, what is their fate, so the government should employ these our brothers, who have just come out of the Agric colleges and those who are still in Agric colleges to come replace us\u201d he said.<\/p>\n