A colourful ceremony attended by
District Agricultural Officers, chiefs and farmers was held on Tuesday, at the premises of the Mill in Worawora in the Volta region.
«Any farm crop destroyed by the activities of any apprehended herdsman shall be estimated
by agricultural officers and the expenses of the estimate shall be borne by the culprit.
Conventional cotton production is not well organized, although the Cotton Development Authority and
agricultural officers are mandated to facilitate production and marketing through cooperative unions.
Organic cotton production is mainly a private - sector driven, business activity organized by exporters while the conventional system is under government promotion (Cotton Development Authority and
agricultural officers).
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1941, he spent most of his first eight years in Nyasaland (now Malawi), where his father, who studied botany at Oxford, served in the British colonial service as
an agricultural officer.