National Farmers’ Day: A Celebration Built on Poisoned Soil and Toxic Rivers

National Farmers’ Day: A celebration built on poisoned soil and toxic rivers

Every year, Ghana honours its farmers with speeches, parades, and awards. But beneath the ceremony lies an uncomfortable truth: we are celebrating agriculture while destroying the very foundations that make agriculture possible. This year, National Farmers’ Day should feel less like a celebration and more like a national alarm. A nation killing its own agricultural future Galamsey has devastated Ghana’s environment at a scale that threatens our …

Minority Blasts Government for Grain Collapse, Galamsey, and Other Failures on Farmers' Day

The Minority in Parliament, led by Hon. Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has turned the occasion of National Farmers’ Day 2025 from a celebration into a fierce indictment of the current administration, accusing the government of orchestrating some of the gravest crises in Ghana’s modern agricultural history. While extending heartfelt appreciation to farmers and fisherfolk for their “extraordinary resilience,” the Minority Leader stressed that the day is…