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Take honey instead of sugar for mental development - Ghanaians advised
GNA | Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Mr Daniel Yando, an agricultural extension officer, has advised the citizenry to rely more on honey as a food sweetener rather than sugar to promote their mental development. He said research had shown that honey had the right contents to sharpen the brain of infants.
Mr Yando who made this known to the Ghana News Agency at Nkoranza said the intake of honey would also serve as a means of livelihood for the over 50 beekeepers in Nkoranza and Techiman who have no market for their produce.
He said the African Development Fund (ADF) has been very supportive of the beekeepers and said it recently organised a course on "Project Management", for all the farmers.
Mr Yando said ADF provided credit facilities in the form of beehives, suits and smokers to the beneficiary farmers.
Mr Michael Sarpong, secretary of the local beekeepers association appealed to the government to promote the marketing of honey by establishing a purchasing agency for the product.
He advised the members of the association to repay the 1.2 million-cedi credit facility, each of them acquired from the ADF.
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