Farmers Services Companies In Three Regions To be Merged

Accra,(Greater Accra) 4 Nov. The Farmers Services Company (FASCOM) in the Volta, Upper East and West regions are to be merged under one management, Mr. Bismark Doku Nettey, president of the Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen (GNAFF), said today. He told the GNA in Accra today, that the rationale is to make the organisation effective in the mobilisation of resources for development. There are plans to make the company shift from its traditional function of only distributing items to farmers and enter into large- scale buying and marketing of goods and services to generate revenue. He said with the release of the government's 60 per cent shares in the company to GNAFF, farmers should re-organise FASCOM to generate more income for themselves. Mr. Nettey appealed to farmers to attend this year's Farmers Day celebrations, especially those in the districts, in large numbers saying poor attendance would discourage the organisers.