At
least seventy staff of the Department of Agriculture have been promoted last
week which was done based on the length of their services and experience.
The
department’s Director General Dr. Saikou Sanyang said ten staff were promoted
to grade 10, 13 to grade 9, more than
twenty to grade 8, about three to grade 7, more than 12 to grade (6) about three staff were promoted
to grade 4.
According
to him, staff welfare is part of his priorities when he was appointed as
Director General. “When I was appointed in November 2018, I conducted a
familiarisation tour to the six agricultural regions during which I identified
three priority areas.
He
said the tour has enabled farmers’ early access to seeds and fertilizer, saying
for the past years fertilizer have been a big issue but with the new minister
in consultation with his staff, 600 tons of fertilizer was provided to the
farmers on time.
“Most
interesting is that a bag of fertilizer was sold for D700 out of which D650
goes to the department as revolving fund and the D50 dalasis as commission for
the sold agent.
“I
realized that for the past five years, some of the staff have stayed for a long
period of time without being promoted. This new promoted staff range from
senior to junior staff of the department.”
