Alhaji Awudu Karim is 2013 National Best Farmer
58 year old Alhaji Awudu Karim from the Kasena Nankana District of the Upper East Region has been adjudged the 2013 National Best Farmer.
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Alhaji Karim takes home the ultimate prize of a fully furnished three-bedroom house to be built by the Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) at any location of his choice, in addition to a pick-up vehicle and a tractor.
Alhaji Karim who is married to four wives with 19 children is a diversified farmer with over 200 acres of lands on which he cultivates maize, rice, groundnuts, sorghum, and mangoes.
He also engages in poultry and livestock farming with 410 guinea fowls, 220 chickens, 420 sheep, 360 goats, six pairs of bullocks as well as 740 other livestock.
He also employs the use of appropriate technologies and has two tractors, 5 donkey carts and three motor Kia trucks as part of his farm machinery.
Alhaji Karim ventured into farming in 1978 after his secondary school education at Navrongo Senior High School.
This year’s event also saw Mr. Edward Maxwell Aninkorah and Abdulai Seidu being adjudged second and third national best farmers respectively.
The first runner-up took home a tractor and its accessories sponsored by the EDIF while the second runner-up received a double cabin Pickup donated by Stanbic Bank.
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