Journalistic Works - News Articles, Features And More of P. ATOGEWE WEDAM

  A newly constituted board of directors for the Irrigation Company of Upper Region [ICUOR], has been sworn into office at a ceremony held in Accra, at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture this Friday afternoon. Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto who administered both the Official Oath and the Oath of Secrecy to formalise the mandate of the eight-member board, charged the board to exercise an effective oversight over the management of the irrigation company which he described as “a very significant investment” so that, the Ghanaian tax payer can derive maximum benefits from it. Hon. Akoto [Centre] Administering the Oaths   Dr. Akoto reminisced that, the Tono Irrigation Scheme located in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region and operated by ICOUR, started in the 1970s and also included the Vea Irrigation Scheme in the Bongo District of the region. He noted that, the Tono Scheme was doing well until along the line, “bad management and la

  The National Planning Committee for the 2021 National Farmers’ Day [NFD] celebrations continues to attract some goodwill and support from corporate Ghana as some three companies, converged at the Agric Ministry late Wednesday afternoon and made various donations to the committee including cash and items. The donors included Broadspectrum Ltd. – a communications technologies company, K. Badu Agrochemicals Company Ltd. and UPL Callighana Ltd., agrochemical and bio-solutions technology developers. Broadspectrum and Callighana both made cash donations of 80,000.00 Ghana Cedis and 10,000.00 Ghana Cedis to the committee respectively, while the K. Badu company presented 15 pieces of motorized sprayers in aid of the pending event.   Hon. Addo Receiving Cheque from Broadspectrum  This year’s edition of the NFD which is the 37 th in the series is themed “Planting for Food and Jobs – Consolidating Food Systems in Ghana”. The national event is scheduled to take place on December 3, 2021 at th