Some farmers in the Brong Ahafo Region have appealed to the government not to sack personnel of the cocoa mass spraying gangs engaged by the previous administration. Nana Baffour-Asare, Chief farmer of Kasapin in Asunafo North Municipality said government should rather increase their number to help improve the production of the crop. Nana Baffour-Asare said it had been alleged that some new names had been sent to Goaso to replace the old spraying gangs. “The government should rather create more jobs for the people and not to create unemployment”, he said at an emergency meeting for cocoa mass spraying supervisors and gang leaders at Kasapin. He said the cocoa mass spraying exercise should not be politicized saying “if the government wants to replace old gangs it is better for the government to provide jobs for the old gangs to enable them to survive”. Mr. Kofi Appiah, gang supervisor at Daabeansa, a farming community, said the spraying exercise would soon start and urged cocoa farmers to cooperate with the gangs. Mr. Appiah appealed to the government to ensure that the programme was carried out successfully. The community also held a send-off party, organised by the traditional council, in honour of 20 US Peace Corps volunteers who assisted the community to build a community centre. The team, led by Pastor Chriss Nyame, spent nine weeks in the community to help build the centre. The traditional council presented a kente cloth and a pair of sandals each to two of the volunteers. Source: GNA