{"id":1211,"date":"2018-12-12T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2018-12-12T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T08:30:30","slug":"hon-lawyer-mrs-babara-oteng-gyasi-pledges-additional-cocoa-centre-for-farmers-in-prestea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/2018\/12\/12\/hon-lawyer-mrs-babara-oteng-gyasi-pledges-additional-cocoa-centre-for-farmers-in-prestea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon. Lawyer Mrs. Babara Oteng Gyasi pledges additional cocoa centre for farmers in Prestea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources in Charge of Mines, Lawyer Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has hinted that, her outfit is working to secure another Cocoa Centre for the Prestea Huni-valley Municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The minister who doubles as Member of Parliament for the area made the pronouncement during the 34th Farmers&#8217; Day celebration held at Peteporm in Bogoso.<\/p>\n<p>She added, the initiative would reduce transportation inconveniences cocoa farmers go through<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am working to get additional Cocoa centre at Prestea, to solve the challenges farmers go through accessing chemicals and fertilisers from Cocoa Offices. she affirmed<\/p>\n<p>Madam Oteng-Adjei said she has provided 50 spraying machines to farmers for spraying, pruning and also to embark on the cocoa seedling project at Nsuaem.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, farmers are experiencing bumper harvest as a result of consistent investment by government.<\/p>\n<p>Stressing on welfare of farmers, Lawyer Oteng-Gyasi said government is considering pension scheme for cocoa farmers promised during campaign\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>source:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/regional\/Prestea-MP-pledges-additional-cocoa-centre-for-farmers-708126\">https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/regional\/Prestea-MP-pledges-additional-cocoa-centre-for-farmers-708126<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister for Lands and Natural Resources in Charge of Mines, Lawyer Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has hinted that, her outfit is working to secure another Cocoa Centre for the Prestea Huni-valley Municipality. The minister who doubles as Member of Parliament for the area made the pronouncement during the 34th Farmers&#8217; Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phma.gov.gh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}