A contender in the National Chairmanship race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, has advised the public against practising long-distance farming.
According to Prof. Ameyaw Akumfi, he has been an absentee farmer–one whose residence is distant from the working land.
He noted that being an absentee farmland owner, it was an expensive business because farmhands who worked on the land dealt dishonestly with him.
Speaking on Angel FM’s Anopa Bofoↄ morning show, the Board Chairman of the Public Procurement Authority said the individual risks losing his produce or animals he or she rears to the employees or thieves who invade the farm.
Thus, engaging in the practice would be unproductive for the landowner especially at a time when price of staples is spiralling.
“I won’t advice you to go into absentee farming. The women harvest the crops for their personal use. Animals go missing. If you have a farm house you can stay there for a while to monitor activities, but when you farm in Techiman and come to live in Accra, you will suffer,” said the onetime Member of Parliament for Techiman North Constituency to Kofi Adoma Nwanwani on the show.
