Farmers in the country have been advised never to ignore daily weather reports given by climate experts and weather forecasters, but pay critical attention to such informations in their routine crop cultivations.

Ms. Victoria Abankwa, the Agric Director for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality in the Central Region made this assertion at the annual anniversary launch ceremony of the Groundnut Growers Association (Komenda Zone), dubbed, "Championing Agriculture Through Innovation, Investment and Resilience."

The advise follows the conceived mentality of most Ghanaian farmers for previously experiencing inaccurate weather reports by the country's meteorological agency. Hence, their slow urge to present times weather reports offered.

Speaking in an interview to Sompa News Eric Annan, Ms. Victoria Abankwa, admonished Ghana to have adopted the path of modernizing agriculture, which emerges unattainable without the consideration of daily weather updates, and that, charged farmers in the country to pay outmost attention to daily weather informations.

Emmanuel Acquah, Chairman of the Groundnut Growers Association (Komenda Zone), remarked the plight members of the association often goes through in cultivating their farm produce, coupled with the association's dying need of working equipments.

He appealed on leadership of the municipality to come to the aid of the association with tractor services to assist in their crop cultivation.

In an address delivered on behalf of the Chairperson for the ceremony, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang and the Member of Parliament for KEEA, Hon. Samuel Atta-Mills by the former MCE of the municipality, Hon. Ismail Saeed Zagoon, he recounted the duo's unflinching willingness to support the association.

Hon. Ismail Saeed Zagoon commended leadership of the association for their tireless effort in guiding the association till date and revealed Prof. Naana Opoku-Agyemang and Hon. Samuel Atta-Mills' communicated effort to assist the association get a brand new tractor for their farm work activities as required of them.

This follows a donation of assorted items by the two to the association at the ceremony, which comprises 25 bags of rice, 10 bags of fertilizer, 10 boxes of tomatoes, 3 bags of sugar, 5 boxes of tin fish, 5 boxes of frytol oil, 5 boxes of soap, 30 packs of bottle water, 50 bags of sachet water, loafs of bread, assorted fruits, plus a cash donation.

The launch underscore the association's intention to annually celebrate its birth, having set December 15, 2024 to earmark its first anniversary.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan