DOSSIER: National Farmers' Day

Marked on the first Friday in December every year, the National Farmers’ Day was instituted by the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government in 1985 in recognition of the vital role farmers and fishermen played in the economy.

• Walewale watermelon processing plant to employ over 2,000 (2019-12-15)
• Farmers get scholarship (2019-12-09)
• Engage in backyard farming – AMA boss urges city dwellers (2019-12-08)
• Blind man picks best PwD farmer in Central Gonja District (2019-12-08)
• Jamestown Fisherman adjudged AMA’s 2019 Best Farmer (2019-12-07)
• Construction of Jamestown Fishing Harbour to begin January 2020 - Adjei Sowah (2019-12-07)
• Shama District to get cassava processing factory under 1D1F (2019-12-07)
• There is no job as lucrative as farming - MP (2019-12-06)
• It's about working smart – John Dumelo tells Ghanaian youth on Farmer's Day (2019-12-06)
• Farmers’ Day: Rawlings congratulates farmers, encourages consumption of local rice (2019-12-06)
• Farmers’ Day: ‘Let’s eat what we grow’ – Mahama appeals (2019-12-06)
• Let’s embrace technology in farming – Rawlings (2019-12-06)
• ‘Hoe and cutlass’ agriculture will keep the youth away – Mahama on Farmer’s Day prizes (2019-12-06)
• Help us – Peasant farmers to government (2019-12-06)
• Mahama hails Rawlings on Farmer’s Day (2019-12-06)
• Agric remains my priority – Akufo-Addo (2019-12-06)
• 2019 Farmers Day: EXIM Bank must scale up investments in Agric – Mahama (2019-12-06)
• Farmers’ Day: Small-scale farmers in ‘tears’ over neglect (2019-12-06)
• VR ready for 35th National Farmers Day (2019-12-01)
• Reduce interest rate on agric to single digit - Agribusiness Chamber (2018-12-16)
• 2018 Best farmer, first runner-up tell their stories (2018-12-15)
• Scholarships secretariat confirms Akufo-Addo’s grants for 24 best farmers (2018-12-13)
• Meet the blind man who won Best Physically Challenged farmer in Kasena-Nankana (2018-12-13)
• Farmers Day: Twenty outstanding farmers honoured in Mpohor District (2018-12-11)
• Vodafone congratulates best female farmer (2018-12-11)
• Culture, excitement at National Farmers’ Day celebration (2018-12-10)
• Peter Nsiah wins first best farmer award at Amansie South (2018-12-10)
• Government to invest heavily in agric 2019 - Akufo-Addo assures (2018-12-09)
• Akufo-Addo blasts NDC over Agric neglect (2018-12-09)
• Planting for Food and Jobs policy yields results - MCE (2018-12-08)
• Peasant Farmers Association cautions government against GMOs (2018-12-08)
• Stop the rhetoric, invest in agric – Mahama to Akufo-Addo (2018-12-08)
• Increased food production in Bongo due to government’s interventions - DCE (2018-12-08)
• National Best Farmer awardee dies in Tamale (2018-12-07)
• Provide farmers with robust policy environment to be profitable – CAG to gov’t (2018-12-07)
• 'No cash for Farmers' Day' - Agric Minister (2018-12-06)
• Farmers’ Day budget meagre – Agric Minister (2018-12-05)
• Vodafone Ghana donates towards Farmers’ Day (2018-12-02)
• Stanbic Bank donates pick-up truck to support National Farmers Day (2018-11-26)
• 4 companies donate towards National Farmer’s Day celebration (2018-11-09)
• Eni Ghana launches economic diversification project in the Western Region (2018-10-24)
• Veep launches 2018 National Farmers Day celebration (2018-08-04)
• Farmers urged to adopt good agricultural practices (2018-04-16)
• 'Disappointed' Best Farmer gets 'Aboboyaa' (2017-12-19)
• Prestea-Huni Valley District's Overall Best Farmer returns awards to government (2017-12-07)
• I don’t know what to do with my $100,000 reward - National Best Farmer (2017-12-06)
• Scrap 'bogus' Farmers' Day celebration - Akuafo Mma (2017-12-05)
• NDC chairman wins Best Farmer award (2017-12-04)
• 3 boys drown in abandoned dugout at Amasaman on Farmers’ Day (2017-12-03)
• Farmers Day: Smallholder farmers feel left out of awards – Peasant Farmers Association (2017-12-03)
• Government fast-tracking modernisation of agriculture - Akufo-Addo (2017-12-03)
• 2017 National Best farmer Philip Agyeman bags $100,000 (2017-12-02)
• Philip Kweku Agyeman is 2017 National Best Farmer (2017-12-02)
• Agric Minister urges 'one chief, one farm' (2017-12-02)
• Decline in Agric sector is threat to our lives – Akufo-Addo announces new plan (2017-12-02)
• Women 'sweep' farmers awards at Tarkwa-Nsuaem (2017-12-02)
• One injured in cutlass battle on Farmers’ Day (2017-12-02)
• Ghana urged to do more for farmers and fishermen (2017-12-02)
• Reduce duty on imported farming equipment – Farmers to government (2017-12-02)
• Agona East MP Appreciates farmers (2017-12-02)
• Ministry of Food and Agriculture introduces drought-resistant, early maturing crop varieties (2017-12-02)
• Ghana has experience 40% declination in the agric sector – Nana Akufo-Addo (2017-12-02)
• Fulfil your responsibility to farmers - NDC charges Akufo-Addo (2017-12-01)
• NDC salutes farmers for contribution to GDP (2017-12-01)
• President Akufo-Addo unhappy with declining agric sector (2017-12-01)
• Government to begin development of 192 'small dams' in 2018 (2017-12-01)
• Farmers’ Day turns bloody at New Juaben (2017-12-01)
• Thomas Mankire emerges as best farmer for Kintampo Municipality (2017-12-01)
• Farmers' Day: Ghana must move into commercial farming – Prosper Bani (2017-12-01)
• NPP commends farmers for 'feeding' Ghana (2017-12-01)
• Farmers’ Day holiday has no significance to farmers; abolish it – GAWU (2017-12-01)
• Scrap Farmers' day as holiday – Group (2017-12-01)
• Farmers are worth more than National awards - MP (2017-12-01)
• 33rd National Farmers’ Day event comes off today (2017-12-01)
• Mahama salutes farmers (2017-12-01)
• LIVESTREAMING: National Farmers’ Day celebration (2017-12-01)
• 33rd National Farmers’ day event underway in Kumasi (2017-12-01)
• National Best Farmer to receive $100,000 (2017-12-01)
• Agric 'key growth driver' – Akufo-Addo (2017-12-01)
• 320 dams in 64 districts coming – Akufo-Addo (2017-12-01)
• Kweku Agyeman is 2017 Best Farmer (2017-12-01)
• 50-year-old walks away with $100,000 as 2017 National Best Farmer (2017-12-01)